In Conscious (R)Evolution, Humanity, Insanity, and the Planet, the author brings together two powerful insights: that all life on this planet is interconnected, and that humanity’s current path of consumerism and industrialization is leading to catastrophe. From deforestation to pollution, we are damaging the very environment that sustains us. This book asks us to stop and consider the bigger picture: as an intelligent species, why would we willingly destroy the planet that gave us life? With urgency and clarity, the author calls for a new way of living, one that recognizes our place in the natural world and uses our intelligence to create a better future for all.
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.
This breakthrough book brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more.
While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.
Mysticism & Physics self help non fiction , inner guide to meditation , inner being ,consciousness to non being body where time space forms duality completely annihilate to awareness i am ness into the law of eternity core and source of the mystery of the universe and of life and death and of all duality , eternity is infinite infinity the size vanish into infinity like the ultimate equation of quantum mathematics eternity is infinite freedom from all and everything the real freedom , infinite peace infinite silence rich with intrinsic subtle ecstasy throbbing with eternal life , is infinite bliss that surpass all understanding sacred holy divine is an open relativity not absolute at all because as no begin or end , is the core and source of immortality and resurrection , a human being in essence is eternity itself in mystical union oneness , deathless , and the resurrection is a conscious alchemy not material not physical not gross is a conscious alchemy from unconscious to inner being to consciousness to non being body incorporeal to awareness i am ness into the law of eternity , here into eternity you in essence are back home and enlightenment happen unfold if you hold a body you will be enlightened forever and all unconscious asleep and various hypnosis gone forever , you will live a life of bliss playfulness sacred holy divine after such experience of meditation , here in this book all the inner eternal journey is describe with accuracy through the inner science called mysticism , is an inner science of the inner reality mystery of an organic unity that a human being is , a search research done scientifically factual not esoteric at all , and physics means nature in ancient Greek language the science knowledge of nature , the goal of physics is to know understand how the universe behave and how the inner law forces energy of the universal body behave and affected influence our planet earth and the organic unity , mysticism and physics intersect merge mingled together are indivisible and what emerge is a synthesis of a unique science amazing beautiful complete total never witness before by human kind , that will transform the inner reality and mystery of human being completely and the surface of our objective planet completely in the next hundred years a mystical revolution will unfold a new era a new dawn of civilization intelligence consciousness awareness i am ness that what is all about mysticism & physics ..Angelo Aulisa
If you think world peace is a naive concept, Paul K. Chappell’s very existence will give you pause. It’s not enough to say that Chappell – a West Point graduate and Iraq War veteran – is a soldier turned peace leader. Experiencing a traumatic upbringing and growing up mixed race in Alabama, he’s a young man forged by violence, rage, and racism into a living weapon for peace. By unlocking the mysteries of human nature, he shows how the muscles of hope, empathy, appreciation, conscience, reason, discipline, and curiosity give us the power to end the wars between countries, our ongoing war with nature, and the war in our hearts.
Outlining the new worldview of conscious evolution, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard has written a call to action for our current generation to fulfill its creative potential. She defines conscious evolution as “the awareness that humans have gained the power to affect our own evolution,” and she asserts that we must quickly become capable of wise and ethical guidance of evolution itself, if life on earth is to survive. Only in the last fifty years have we gained the scientific and technological power to destroy or enhance the planet's life-support system. Our generation has the ability to abuse or conserve these powers — to act, in a way, as “co-creator.” Conscious Evolution reveals the “path of the co-creator” — born out of these powers and society's new spirituality — and discusses the tools and opportunities that each of us has to fully participate in this exciting stage in history.
