Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution

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Quest Books, 2007 M05 16 - 421 pages
This book chronicles humanity's cultural and psychospiritual evolutionary journey over some six million years from its primal past into its dazzling cosmic future.

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Contents

Introduction
3
The Mysterious Serpent
25
The Ancient Magicians 43 355
43
The Twilight Dawn of Death
61
Voyage into the Superconscious
75
Future Shock
93
The Great Mother
119
The Great Goddess
141
The Slaying of the Typhon
199
A New Time A New Body
211
Solarization
227
On Becoming a Person
273
The Dawn of Misery
303
Original Sin
313
The Future
339
Republicans Democrats and Mystics
351

The Mythology of Murder
157
Polis and Praxis
167
Something Unheard Of
187
Bibliography
363
Index
381
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Ken Wilber
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About the author (2007)

KEN WILBER is the founder of Integral Institute and the cofounder of Integral Life. He is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the author of more than twenty books, including A Brief History of Everything, A Theory of Everything, Integral Spirituality, No Boundary, Grace and Grit, and Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.

Bibliographic information

TitleUp from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution
AuthorKen Wilber
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherQuest Books, 2007
ISBN0835607313, 9780835607315
Length421 pages
  
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