TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Worldviews in Transition
 Worldviews and paradigm shifts |
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Guiding principles of Western culture |
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Ten transformational challenges |
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Are current challenges greater than in times past?
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CHAPTER TWO
Critical Questions for the New Age
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The New Age slippery slope |
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New Age versus New Paradigm |
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Are New Age trends healthy? |
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Criticisms of the popular New Age mind-set |
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What's new about the New Age?
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CHAPTER THREE
The Search for a Master Paradigm: Systems Holism and the Perennial
Philosophy
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Systems Holism |
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The Tao of Holism: a defense of Fritjof Capra |
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The central challenge for Systems Holism |
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The Perennial Philosophy
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CHAPTER FOUR
Paranormal Perspectives on Reality
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How ought we connect what we believe with what's real? |
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Perspectivism: the mystic and the physicist |
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Why CSICOP is losing the war |
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Who's in the channel? |
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Taking reincarnation seriously |
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Misconceptions of reincarnation |
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Varieties of evidence for reincarnation |
CHAPTER FIVE
Energy Monism I: Consciousness and the New Physics
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Old and new paradigms of consciousness |
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The New Physics |
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From mechanistic science to vibratory science |
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Applications from the field |
CHAPTER SIX
Energy Monism II: Beyond Dualism and Materialism
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The energy-consciousness underlying all things |
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The physical/nonphysical continuum: bioenergy |
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What do Kirlian photographs represent? |
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Out-of-body experiences and the mind-body connection |
CHAPTER SEVEN
The One-in-the-Many
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The mystic's message: of oneness and nonduality |
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Is reality structured holographically? |
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Major levels in the Great Chain of Being |
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Hierarchical interpenetration |
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Retrospect and prospect |
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The special case of Bell's theorem |
CHAPTER EIGHT
Order in the Flux
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The creative interplay of opposites: discovery or invention? |
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A politically correct integration of masculine/feminine archetypes |
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Self-organizing systems: a defense of Rupert Sheldrake |
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Accelerated interdimensional integration |
CHAPTER NINE
Time: Leading Edge of Eternity
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Four theories of time |
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Does the future already exist? |
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Must time have a direction? |
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The psychology of time's arrow |
CHAPTER TEN
Transpersonal Psychology and Personal Growth
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Continuing agendas for transpersonal psychology |
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Significant others: new paradigms of relationship |
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Principles of personal growth: a brief commentary |
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Health and Healing at the Crossroads
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Biomedical and holistic models of health |
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Do our minds make us physically sick? |
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Psychic and spiritual healing: placebos or energy transfers?
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CHAPTER TWELVE
Paradigm Wars: Abortion, Education, and the Environment
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Reincarnation and abortion: when does a fetus become a person? |
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Honoring the magical child: a manifesto for holistic education |
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Systems Holism and the Earth Mother: beyond saving the planet |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Shaping a New Religious Consciousness
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Three challenges for contemporary religion |
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Creation Spirituality: a sympathetic critique |
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The shape of a new religious consciousness |
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Apocalyptic creation: earth changes and millennium fever |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Galactic Destiny: A Transformational Vision for Our Times
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Light and darkness: earth's place in the galaxy |
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Government cover-up: what do extraterrestrials want? |
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The promise of light |
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Predictions: what are we to do? |
APPENDIX
Message from Mars: Sacred Geometry and the Evolution of Consciousness
(Frederick 0. Mills)