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Tables of Contents for A Brief History of Everything
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Tony Schwartz
Preface to the Second Edition
xv
A Note to the Reader
xix
Introduction
1
12
Part One: Spirit-in-Action
13
110
The Pattern That Connects
15
13
The Kosmos
16
1
Twenty Tenets: The Patterns That Connect
17
2
Agency and Communion
19
1
Transcendence and Dissolution
19
2
Four Drives of All Holons
21
1
Creative Emergence
21
3
Holarchy
24
2
The Way of All Embrace
26
2
The Secret Impulse
28
12
Higher and Lower
28
2
Depth and Span
30
3
Kosmic Consciousness
33
3
The Spectrum of Consciousness
36
4
All Too Human
40
12
Foraging
41
2
Horticultural
43
2
Agrarian
45
3
Industrial
48
4
The Great Postmodern Revolution
52
11
The Postmodern Watershed
52
4
Two Paths in Postmodernity
56
2
On the Edge of Tomorrow
58
2
Transcendence and Repression
60
3
The Four Corners of the Kosmos
63
13
The Four Quadrants
64
4
Intentional and Behavioral
68
2
Cultural and Social
70
2
An Example
72
2
The Shape of Things to Come
74
2
The Two Hands of God
76
20
Mind and Brain
77
2
The Left- and Right-Hand Paths
79
1
The Monological Gaze: The Key to the Right-Hand Paths
79
2
Interpretation: The Key to the Left-Hand Paths
81
2
What Does That Dream Mean?
83
3
Social Science versus Cultural Understanding
86
1
Hermeneutics
87
2
All Interpretation Is Context-Bound
89
1
Nonhuman Interpretation
90
1
Spiritual Interpretation
91
5
Attuned to the Kosmos
96
14
Propositional Truth
97
1
Truthfulness
98
4
Justness
102
2
Functional Fit
104
4
Conclusion: The Four Faces of Spirit
108
2
The Good, the True, and the Beautiful
110
13
The Big Three
110
3
The Good News: Differentiation of the Big Three
113
2
The Bad News: Dissociation of the Big Three
115
4
The Task of Postmodernity: Integration of the Big Three
119
1
The Spiritual Big Three
120
3
Part Two: The Further Reaches of Spirit-in-Action
123
96
The Evolution of Consciousness
125
18
Higher Stages of Development
126
2
Ladder, Climber, View
128
1
Basic Levels: The Ladder
129
1
The Self: The Climber
130
1
A Fulcrum
131
1
New Worlds Emerge: Changing Views
132
3
Pathology
135
2
States and Stages
137
1
Flatland Religion
138
2
Freud and Buddha
140
3
On the Way to Global: Part 1
143
21
The Primary Matrix
144
1
Birth Trauma
145
1
The False Self
146
1
Fulcrum-1: The Hatching of the Physical Self
147
1
Fulcrum-2: The Birth of the Emotional Self
148
5
Fulcrum-3: The Birth of the Conceptual Self
153
1
Every Neurosis Is an Ecological Crisis
154
2
Early Worldviews: Archaic, Magic, Mythic
156
2
Fulcrum-4: The Birth of the Role Self
158
1
Paradigm Shifts
159
1
Satanic Abuse and UFOs
160
4
On the Way to Global: Part 2
164
15
Evolution versus Egocentrism
164
1
Fulcrum-4 (Continued): Life's Social Scripts
165
4
Fulcrum-5: The Worldcentric or Mature Ego
169
2
Diversity and Multiculturalism
171
2
Fulcrum-6: The Bodymind Integration of the Centaur
173
2
Aperspectival Madness
175
1
On the Brink of the Transpersonal
176
3
Realms of the Superconscious: Part 1
179
19
Where the Mind Leaves Off
179
2
The Transpersonal Stages
181
2
Fulcrum-7: The Psychic
183
3
Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism
186
2
The Enneagram and the Basic Skeleton
188
3
Fulcrum-8: The Subtle
191
2
Jung and the Archetypes
193
5
Realms of the Superconscious: Part 2
198
21
Fulcrum-9: The Causal
199
6
The Nondual
205
5
The Immediacy of Pure Presence
210
3
Enlightenment
213
6
Part Three: Beyond Flatland
219
94
Ascending and Descending
221
15
A Brief Summary
221
3
The Great Holarchy
224
3
This-Worldly versus Otherworldly
227
4
Wisdom and Compassion
231
1
God and Goddess
232
1
Two Different Gods
233
2
The Descended Grid
235
1
The Collapse of the Kosmos
236
19
The Dignity of Modernity
237
3
The Disaster of Modernity
240
1
Instrumental Rationality: A World of Its
241
3
The Fundamental Enlightenment Paradigm
244
1
No Spirit, No Mind, Only Nature
245
5
The Voice of the Industrial Grid
250
5
The Ego and the Eco
255
18
Ego versus Eco
255
1
The Flatland Twins
256
2
The Ego's Truth
258
1
The Ego's Problem
259
1
The Ego and Repression
260
1
The Re-enchantment of the World
261
1
Back to Nature
262
1
The Eco and Regression
263
2
Paradise Lost
265
4
The Way Back Machine
269
1
The Great Battle of Modernity: Fichte versus Spinoza
270
3
The Dominance of the Descenders
273
13
Evolution: The Great Holarchy Unfolds in Time
274
2
Evolution: Spirit-in-Action
276
2
Glimmers of the Nondual
278
1
Always Already
279
1
The Fading of the Vision
280
2
The Dominance of the Descenders
282
1
The Internet
283
2
The Religion of Gaia
285
1
An Integral Vision
286
27
The Writing on the Wall
286
2
The Superman Self
288
3
The Great-Web Gaia Self
291
2
Beyond the Postmodern Mind
293
3
World Transformation and the Culture Gap
296
4
Environmental Ethics: Holonic Ecology
300
6
The Basic Moral Intuition
306
1
An Integral Vision
307
6
Appendix: The Twenty Tenets
313