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In addition to the apocalyptic prospect of global nuclear destruction, there are other dismal scenarios involving resource and environmental issues that are less imminent but still serious in the long term. Past analyses, seeking remedies, have focused on symptoms rather than causes. They represent extensions and expressions of the same philosophies and strategies that created these situations.
This book brings a fresh and optimistic perspective to the problem area. It explores modern consciousness research and transpersonal psychology for practices that accelerate the development of consciousness. It covers a wide range from laboratory techniques of experimental psychiatry, transpersonal psychotherapies, and Jungian psychology to the Oriental and Western mystical traditions.
Introduction
Stanislav Grof
1. Human Survival: A Psycho-Evolutionary Analysis
Roger Walsh
2. Transpersonal Vision
Frances Vaughan
3. The Transformed Beserk: Unification of Psychic Opposites
Marie-Louise von Franz
4. On Getting to Know One's Inner Enemy: Transformational Perspectives on the Conflict of Good and Evil
Ralph Metzner
5. Modern Consciousness Research and Human Survival
Stanislav Grof
6. Individuality: A Spiritual Task and Societal Hazard
John Weir Perry
7. Thoughts on Mysticism as Frontier of Consciousness Evolution
Brother David Steindl-Rast
8. Jesus, Evolution, and the Future of Humanity
John White
9. The Buddhist Path and Social Responsibility
Jack Kornfield
10. Transition to a New Consciousness
Karan Singh
11. The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima
James Garrison
12. The Incomplete Myth: Reflections on the "Star Wars" Dimension of the Arms Race
Michael E. Zimmerman
13. Laying Down A Path in Walking: A Biologist's Look at a New Biology and Its Ethics
Francisco J. Varela
14. Pacific Shift: The Philosophical and Political Movement from the Atlantic to the Pacific
William Irwin Thompson
15. Space-Age and Planetary Awareness: A Personal Experience
Russell L. Schweickart
16. Near Death Experiences: Implications for Human Evolution and Planetary Transformation
Kenneth Ring
17. The Omega Project
Kenneth Ring and Alise Agar
18. Death, The Final Stage of Growth
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Contributors
Index