The Cracking Tower A Strategy for Transcending 2012

by DeKorne, Jim

• ISBN13: 9781556438165
• ISBN10: 1556438168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-03
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

"One needn't ingest psychedelics, be a shaman, or believe in prophecy to see that countless environmental and social imbalances are about to converge into an inevitable 'perfect storm' at some time in the very near future. 'Singularity' is a word that means 'exponential change,' and whether or not you accept the 2012 prophecy, it is certain that you are already reeling under the accelerating techno-socio-ecological transformations now altering our reality. This crisis is clearly in process, regardless of what date one picks for its culmination. To acknowledge this is not the same as believing that space aliens will whisk us home in a UFO-there are too many synchronicities here to ignore. Despite the abysmal track record of apocalypse prediction, this is one end-of-the-world 'prophecy' that is actually coming true: by any standard of measurement, our old familiar world is disappearing forever-it just has a bit further to go before trends already in process fulfill themselves."

Author Biography

Jim DeKorne is a former epidemiologist and college English professor. He participated actively in civil rights and antiwar protests in the 1960s, the back-to-the-land and appropriate technology movements of the 1970s, and the psychedelic renaissance of the 1980s. He lives on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Cracking Tower	p. ix
Prologue: A 1960s Memoir	p. xv
Defining Our Terms: Psychedelic Shamanism Reconsidered	p. 1
The Structure of Reality Is the Structure of Mind	p. 13
Unity and Multiplicity: The Solipsistic Pomegranate	p. 21
Bodies Are Vessels of Consciousness	p. 37
Lost in the Cube of Space	p. 51
Solve et Coagula	p. 61
Inner Guidance	p. 75
Shaman as Bard, Shaman as Scientist	p. 85
Archons Are Archetypes, Are Us	p. 103
The Shaman as Prophet	p. 117
The Cracking Tower	p. 139
Afterword	p. 155
Appendix from The Gnostic Book of Changes: The Management of the Work	p. 159
Endnotes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 197
About the Author	p. 205
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