Brief History of Everything Vol. 7 : The Eye of Spirit

by Wilber, Ken

• ISBN13: 9781570625077
• ISBN10: 1570625077
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

A Brief History of Everything(1996) "Combining spiritual sensitivity with enormous intellectual understanding and a style of elegance and clarity, [this book] is a clarion call for seeing the world as a whole."-San Francisco Chronicle.The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad(1997) uses the spectrum model to create an integral approach to psychology, spirituality, anthropology, cultural studies, and art. "An Integral Theory of Consciousness," an essay previously unpublished in book form, presents one of the first theories to integrate first-, second-, and third-person accounts of consciousness.

Author Biography

Ken Wilber is the developer of an integral "theory of everything" that embraces the truths of all the world's great psychological, scientific, philosophical, and spiritual traditions. He founded the Integral Institute, a think-tank for studying issues of science and society, in 2000. Wilber is the author of twenty books.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume Seven	1	(44)
A Brief History of Everything	45	(2)
Foreword	47	(4)
Tony Schwartz
A Note to the Reader	51	(2)
Introduction	53	(12)
Part One: Spirit-in-Action	65	(110)
The Pattern That Connects	67	(13)
The Kosmos	68	(1)
Twenty Tenets: The Patterns That Connect	69	(2)
Agency and Communion	71	(1)
Transcendence and Dissolution	71	(2)
Four Drives of All Holons	73	(1)
Creative Emergence	73	(3)
Holarchy	76	(2)
The Way of All Embrace	78	(2)
The Secret Impulse	80	(12)
Higher and Lower	80	(2)
Depth and Span	82	(3)
Kosmic Consciousness	85	(3)
The Spectrum of Consciousness	88	(4)
All Too Human	92	(12)
Foraging	93	(2)
Horticultural	95	(2)
Agrarian	97	(3)
Industrial	100	(4)
The Great Postmodern Revolution	104	(11)
The Postmodern Watershed	104	(4)
Two Paths in Postmodernity	108	(2)
On the Edge of Tomorrow	110	(2)
Transcendence and Repression	112	(3)
The Four Corners of the Kosmos	115	(13)
The Four Quadrants	116	(4)
Intentional and Behavioral	120	(2)
Cultural and Social	122	(2)
An Example	124	(2)
The Shape of Things to Come	126	(2)
The Two Hands of God	128	(20)
Mind and Brain	129	(2)
The Left-and Right-Hand Paths	131	(1)
The Monological Gaze: The Key to the Right-Hand Paths	131	(2)
Interpretation: The Key to the Left-Hand Paths	133	(2)
What Does That Dream Mean?	135	(3)
Social Science versus Cultural Understanding	138	(1)
Hermeneutics	139	(2)
All Interpretation Is Context-Bound	141	(1)
Nonhuman Interpretation	142	(1)
Spiritual Interpretation	143	(5)
Attuned to the Kosmos	148	(14)
Propositional Truth	149	(1)
Truthfulness	150	(4)
Justness	154	(2)
Functional Fit	156	(4)
Conclusion: The Four Faces of Spirit	160	(2)
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful	162	(13)
The Big Three	162	(3)
The Good News: Differentiation of the Big Three	165	(2)
The Bad News: Dissociation of the Big Three	167	(4)
The Task of Postmodernity: Integration of the Big Three	171	(1)
The Spiritual Big Three	172	(3)
Part Two: The Further Reaches of Spirit-in-Action	175	(96)
The Evolution of Consciousness	177	(18)
Higher Stages of Development	178	(2)
Ladder, Climber, View	180	(1)
Basic Levels: The Ladder	181	(1)
The Self: The Climber	182	(1)
A Fulcrum	183	(1)
New Worlds Emerge: Changing Views	184	(3)
Pathology	187	(2)
States and Stages	189	(1)
Flatland Religion	190	(2)
Freud and Buddha	192	(3)
On the Way to Global: Part I	195	(21)
The Primary Matrix	196	(1)
Birth Trauma	197	(1)
The False Self	198	(1)
The Hatching of the Physical Self	199	(1)
The Birth of the Emotional Self	200	(5)
The Birth of the Conceptual Self	205	(1)
Every Neurosis Is an Ecological Crisis	206	(2)
Early Worldviews: Archaic, Magic, Mythic	208	(2)
The Birth of the Role Self	210	(1)
Paradigm Shifts	211	(1)
Satanic Abuse and UFOs	212	(4)
On the Way to Global: Part 2	216	(15)
Evolution versus Egocentrism	216	(1)
Life's Social Scripts	217	(4)
The Worldcentric or Mature Ego	221	(2)
Diversity and Multiculturalism	223	(2)
The Bodymind Integration of the Centaur	225	(2)
Aperspectival Madness	227	(1)
On the Brink of the Transpersonal	228	(3)
Realms of the Superconscious: Part I	231	(19)
Where the Mind Leaves Off	231	(2)
The Transpersonal Stages	233	(2)
The Psychic	235	(3)
Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism	238	(2)
The Enneagram and the Basic Skeleton	240	(3)
The Subtle	243	(2)
Jung and the Archetypes	245	(5)
Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2	250	(21)
The Causal	251	(6)
The Nondual	257	(5)
The Immediacy of Pure Presence	262	(3)
Enlightenment	265	(6)
Part Three: Beyond Flatland	271	(96)
Ascending and Descending	273	(15)
A Brief Summary	273	(3)
The Great Holarchy	276	(3)
This-Worldly versus Otherworldly	279	(4)
Wisdom and Compassion	283	(1)
God and Goddess	284	(1)
Two Different Gods	285	(2)
The Descended Grid	287	(1)
The Collapse of the Kosmos	288	(19)
The Dignity of Modernity	289	(3)
The Disaster of Modernity	292	(1)
Instrumental Rationality: A World of Its	293	(3)
The Fundamental Enlightenment Paradigm	296	(1)
No Spirit, No Mind, Only Nature	297	(5)
The Voice of the Industrial Grid	302	(5)
The Ego and the Eco	307	(18)
Ego versus Eco	307	(1)
The Flatland Twins	308	(2)
The Ego's Truth	310	(1)
The Ego's Problem	311	(1)
The Ego and Repression	312	(1)
The Re-enchantment of the World	313	(1)
Back to Nature	314	(1)
The Eco and Regression	315	(2)
Paradise Lost	317	(4)
The Way Back Machine	321	(1)
The Great Battle of Modernity: Fichte versus Spinoza	322	(3)
The Dominance of the Descenders	325	(13)
Evolution: The Great Holarchy Unfolds in Time	326	(2)
Evolution: Spirit-in-Action	328	(2)
Glimmers of the Nondual	330	(1)
Always Already	331	(1)
The Fading of the Vision	332	(2)
The Dominance of the Descenders	334	(1)
The Internet	335	(2)
The Religion of Gaia	337	(1)
An Integral Vision	338	(29)
The Writing on the Wall	338	(2)
The Superman Self	340	(3)
The Great-Web Gaia Self	343	(2)
Beyond the Postmodern Mind	345	(3)
World Transformation and the Culture Gap	348	(4)
Environmental Ethics: Holonic Ecology	352	(6)
The Basic Moral Intuition	358	(1)
An Integral Vision	359	(8)
Appendix: The Twenty Tenets	365	(2)
An Integral Theory of Consciousness	367	(36)
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad	403	(378)
What Is the Meaning of ``Integral''?	405	(6)
Jack Crittenden
A Note to the Reader: On God and Politics	411	(8)
Introduction: An Integral Vision: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful	419	(32)
The Spectrum of Consciousness: Integral Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy	451	(19)
In a Modern Light: Integral Anthropology and the Evolution of Cultures	470	(20)
Eye to Eye: Integral Philosophy and the Quest for the Real	490	(15)
Integral Art and Literary Theory: Part 1	505	(17)
Integral Art and Literary Theory: Part 2	522	(23)
The Recaptured God: The Retro-Romantic Agenda and Its Liabilities	545	(24)
Born Again: Stan Grof and the Holotropic Mind	569	(18)
Integral Feminism: Sex and Gender on the Moral and Spiritual Path	587	(15)
How Straight Is the Spiritual Path? The Relation of Psychological and Spiritual Growth	602	(23)
The Effects of Meditation: Speeding Up the Ascent to God and the Descent of the Goddess	625	(28)
Heading toward Omega? Where Exactly Is the Ground of Being?	653	(19)
Always Already: The Brilliant Clarity of Ever-Present Awareness	672	(109)
Notes	691	(80)
Bibliography	771	(10)
Sources	781	(2)
Books	783	(2)
Ken Wilber
Index	785