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title	:	The Heart of History : Individuality in Evolution SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
author	:	Perry, John Weir.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0887064000
print isbn13	:	9780887064005
ebook isbn13	:	9780585057750
language	:	English
subject	Individuality--Social aspects, Culture, Myth.
publication date	:	1987
lcc	:	BF697.P46 1987eb
ddc	:	302.5
subject	:	Individuality--Social aspects, Culture, Myth.

Page i The Heart of History

Page ii SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann and Jean B. Mann, Editors

Page iii The Heart Of History Individuality in Evolution JOHN WEIR PERRY State University of New York Press

Page iv Photo credits: Figures 13 originally appeared in John Perry, The Self in Psychotic Process, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1953; Figures 48 appeared in John Perry, "Reconstitutive Process in the Psychopathology of the Self," in the Annals of The N.Y. Academy of Sciences, vol. 96, January 1962, pp. 85376; Figure 9, courtesy of the British Museum, London; Figure 10, courtesy of the Institute of Comparative Research in Human Culture, Oslo; Figure 11, courtesy of the Asian Art museum of San Francisco; and Figure 12, courtesy of the Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Mexico City. Scattered excerpts in the text are from James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd ed., 1969, Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1987 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, N.Y., 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perry, John Weir. The heart of history. (SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology) Includes index. 1. Culture. 2. Individuality. 3. Myth. I. Title. II. Series. HM101.P456 1987 306 86-14428 ISBN 0-88706-399-3 ISBN 0-88706-400-0 (pbk.) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v CONTENTS Preface vii I. Myth, Ritual, and Visions 1 The Psyche and the Evolution of Cultures 3 2 Lo! They Beheld 21 3 World Images in Turmoil and Transition 39 II. Cultural Transitions 4 A Legacy of Pharaohs 61 5 Sages and Sons of Heaven 77 6 Kingship and Compassion 97 7 Agape and Anointed Ones 111 8 Quests and a Kingdom of the Heart 129 9 Revolution and World Regeneration 147 III. Conclusions for Our Times 10 Individuality in Evolution 171 11 Modern Myth and Nuclear Nemesis 189 12 Ahead 199 Reference Notes 209 Bibliography 229 Author Index 239 Subject Index 240

Page vii Preface In these times, our culture's familiar myth has lost its vitality. The immense crises we face raise questions which find no answer from that spiritual level. This book is an examination of how great myths have been born in the course of history, and what the trend of human development has been as seen through them. For myth is at the heart of historical development. The way we lost our myth is familiar. We now live in a cosmos quite different from that of our forefathers. No longer can we have the comfort of knowing ourselves as God's special creation, descended from Adam, and inhabiting a world that was his unique masterpiece. No longer is it taking the middle position in a three-storied universe, between a heaven to be won and a hell to receive us if we fail the test of our sojourn here in this proving ground. Instead we look out upon the staggering vastness of a seemingly endless crowd of galaxies composed of countless suns and planetary systems, and recognize our earth as a minuscule speck among them. We have appeared to shrink incredibly in our estimation of our value in this new scale of creation. Yet there awaits us a far grander mythic rendering of our place in all this, one that can stir the heart even more deeply than the one we have outgrown.

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