Sex, Ecology, Spirituality The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition

by WILBER, KEN

• ISBN13: 9781570627446
• ISBN10: 1570627444
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-02
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development. He particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they mean; how they impact gender issues, psychotherapy, ecological concerns, and various liberation movements; and how the modern and postmodern world conceive of Spirit. This second edition features forty pages of new material, new diagrams, and extensively revised notes.

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

List of Figures	viii
Preface to the Second Edition, Revised	ix
Introduction	3	(8)
Book One
The Web of Life	11	(29)
The Pattern That Connects	40	(46)
Individual and Social	86	(29)
A View from Within	115	(43)
The Emergence of Human Nature	158	(52)
Magic, Mythic, and Beyond	210	(52)
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature	262
The Depths of the Divine	287	(329)
Book Two
The Way Up Is the Way Down	329	(26)
This-Worldly, Otherworldly	355	(25)
Brave New World	380	(39)
The Collapse of the Kosmos	419	(59)
The Dominance of the Descenders	478	(42)
The Unpacking of God	520	(33)
Notes	553	(238)
References	791	(36)
Index	827