Stanislav Grof - Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution
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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 strategiescreated 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.
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Human beings, Consciousness, Human evolution, Human evolution--Religious aspects.
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1988
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BD450.H865 1988eb
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Human beings, Consciousness, Human evolution, Human evolution--Religious aspects.
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Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution
Edited by Stanislav Grof
with the assistance of Marjorie Livingston Valier
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1988 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Human survival and consciousness evolution.
Includes index. 1. Man. 2. Consciousness. 3. Human evolution. 4. Human evolutionReligious aspects. I. Grof, Stanislav, 1931 . II. Valier, Marjorie Livingston. BD450.H865 1987 128 877118 ISBN 0887065279 ISBN 0887065287 (pbk.)
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Contents
Introduction
Stanislav Grof
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One Human Survival: A Psycho-Evolutionary Analysis
Roger Walsh
1
Two Transpersonal Vision
Frances Vaughan
9
Three The Transformed Beserk: Unification of Psychic Opposites
Marie-Louise von Franz
18
Four On Getting to Know One's Inner Enemy: Transformational Perspectives on the Conflict of Good and Evil
Ralph Metzner
36
Five Modern Consciousness Research and Human Survival
Stanislav Grof
57
Six Individuality: A Spiritual Task and Societal Hazard
John Weir Perry
80
Seven Thoughts on Mysticism as Frontier of Consciousness Evolution
Brother David Steindl-Rast
93
Eight Jesus, Evolution, and the Future of Humanity
John White
119
Nine The Buddhist Path and Social Responsibility
Jack Kornfield
135
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Ten Transition to a New Consciousness
Karan Singh
144
Eleven The Darkness of God: Theology After Hiroshima
James Garrison
151
Twelve The Incomplete Myth: Reflections on the "Star Wars" Dimension of the Arms Race
Michael E. Zimmerman
177
Thirteen Laying Down A Path in Walking: A Biologist's Look at a New Biology and Its Ethics
Francisco J. Varela
204
Fourteen Pacific Shift: The Philosophical and Political Movement from the Atlantic to the Pacific
William Irwin Thompson
218
Fifteen Space-Age and Planetary Awareness: A Personal Experience
Russell L. Schweickart
239
Sixteen Near Death Experiences: Implications for Human Evolution and Planetary Transformation
Kenneth Ring
251
Seventeen The Omega Project
Kenneth Ring and Alise Agar
271
Eighteen Death, The Final Stage of Growth
Elisabeth Kbler-Ross
274
Contributors
287
Index
293
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Introduction
Contemporary humanity has the dubious privilege of being in a role that is unique and unprecedented in the history of our planet. We are the first species that has developed the potential to commit collective suicide and to destroy in this catastrophic act all the other species and life on earth. It is a sad irony that this situation has been made possible by rapid advances of science and technology, two forces that Western peoples have long considered to be reliable means of creating a bright and happy future for the world.
In a certain sense, modern science has fulfilled this promise. It has made discoveries that have the potential to solve most of the problems that plague humanity; it can ameliorate diseases, poverty and hunger, create renewable and inexhaustible supplies of energy, and generate resources that enable an average person to have a living standard that in earlier times was reserved only for a privileged few. Within a few centuries, science has made astonishing breakthroughs and has radically transformed our everyday life. It has been able to release the energies of the atom, build jet airplanes faster than sound and spacecraft that can travel beyond the limits of our solar system, explore the depths of the oceans, transmit sound and color pictures all over the globe and across cosmic space, and decipher the genetic code.
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