Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham

Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Are the eternal laws of nature still evolving? In this book of "trialogues," the late psychedelic visionary Terence McKenna, biologist and author of the morphogenetic field theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore the relationships between chaos and creativity, and their connections to cosmic consciousness.

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A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of inner and outer space the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of human creation and the rediscovery of traditional wisdom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• 2nd Edition, New of Trialogues at the Edge of the West edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780892819775
• ISBN-10: 0892819774
• Artikelnr.: 21521795

Autorenporträt

Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., the author of several books including Seven Experiments That Could Change the World, A New Science of Life, and The Rebirth of Nature, lives in England. Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was the author of Food of the Gods and The Archaic Revival. Ralph Abraham, a Ph.D. in mathematics and a professor at the University of California, is the author of Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior; he lives in California.

Inhaltsangabe

Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jean Houston
Preface
Chapter 1: Creativity and the Imagination
The new evolutionary cosmology. The regularities of nature as evolving
habits. The basis of cosmic creativity. The cosmic imagination as a
higher-dimensional attractor drawing the evolutionary process toward
itself. The Omega Point. Imagination welling up from the womb of chaos.
Psychedelic experience and the mind of Gaia. Gaian dreams and human
history. Dark matter as the cosmic unconscious.
Chapter 2: Creativity and Chaos
The chaos revolution. Chaotic attractors as eternal mathematical realities.
Indeterminism in nature. Chaos and the evolution of order. Form in the
cooling process. The organizing fields of nature as related to mathematics
and the cosmic imagination. Mathematical models. Attractors, attraction,
and motivation. The freezing of information in crystals and in written
language. The primacy of spoken language and abstraction.
Chapter 3: Chaos and the Imagination
Chaos in Greek mythology. The myth of the conquest of chaos. Fear of chaos
and the suppression of the feminine. The partnership society and the rise
of patriarchy. Seasonal festivals of the repression of chaos, and the
creation of the unconscious. The inhibition of creativity and its relation
to global problems. The Eleusinian mysteries. Creativity and Christology.
Plans for the recovery of chaos and the imagination. The significance of
the chaos revolution.
Chapter 4: The World Soul and the Mushroom
Randomness in the evolutionary process. The limited nature of models. The
computer and chaos revolutions. Coevolution of mathematics and the material
world. The mathematical landscape. Sensory qualities in the cosmic
imagination. The similarities of souls and fields. The primal unified field
and the fields of nature. Rebirth of the world soul. Interplanetary
transfer of the human psyche via the psychedelic experience and the spores
of magic mushrooms.
Chapter 5: Light and Vision
Physical light and the light of consciousness. Light and vision. The
location of visual images. Mind extending from the eyes.The sense of being
stared at: a new kind of field or the electromagnetic field? Hierarchy of
fields in nature. Coupling between electromagnetic and mental fields.
Physical light and self-luminous visions. Tryptamine hallucinogens. The
world soul. Fields as the medium of divine omniscience. Gaian mind and the
light of the sun.
Chapter 6: Entities
Discarnate intelligences and nonhuman entities: creatures within the human
mind or truly Other? Entities and shamans. The use of language by entities.
Angelic communication in the birth of modern science. The dream dimension
and entities. The effect of science and humanism on entities. Nature
magically self-reflecting and aware.
Chapter 7: The Unconscious
The three great bifurcations. Creation of the unconscious, the origin of
evil, and the rejection of chaos. Escape from evil by the resurrection of
chaos. The suppression of psychedelics, the patriarchy, and the rise of
booze. Partnership and dominator drugs; the addiction to addictions. Habits
and the formation of the unconscious. Holidays and the reinforcement of
awareness. Prayer, magic, and astrology for enlightenment.
Chapter 8: The Resacralization of the World
Ralph's religious background. The sacred in India. Rediscovering the sacred
in the West. The revival of ritual and the resacralization of music.
Feminism and the archaic revival. Gothic cathedrals and animistic
Christianity. The green movement, saving the Earth, the greening of God.
Psychedelic churches. The resacralizing of science.
Chapter 9: Education in the New World Order
Education as initiation. The dominance of rationalism and humanism. Rites
of passage. Summer camps. Testing and accreditation. Institutions and
administrations. Workshops as a model for a new pluralistic and
decentralized system of education. Religious initiations. Reform of
existing professions. A possible pilot project.
Chapter 10: The Apocalypse
The apocalyptic tradition: a mythic model motivating religious history or
an intuition of the ending of history or time? Modern millenarianism and
scientific versions of the apocalypse. The possible end in 2012. The
self-fulfilling quality of apocalyptic prophecy. The speeding up of history
and the inevitability of planetary metamorphosis. Death and transformation
on a cosmic scale. Intensifying conflict and the power of faith.
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Authors