|
BooksThe Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution
Can Eastern spiritual traditions and the Western heritage of philosophy, psychology and science be seen as steps along the same evolutionary path rather than as completely separate and incomparable schools of thought? The Next Enlightenment says they can, and offers a challenging new view of what may be in store for the human species. All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization
Four kinds of global change -- economic, political, cultural and biological -- are accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and nonhuman life forms. As they do, boundaries around systems of all kinds are penetrated, challenged, relocated. The Future of the Self: Inventing the Postmodern Person
The modern self-concept defines each of us as an individual, with a distinct identity that remains the same wherever we go. But this idea is rapidly eroding in the postmodern world, as different aspects of it are undermined by different currents of thought and action. Evolution Isn't What It Used To Be: The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World
The convergence of the biosciences with electronic technologies, and the evolutionary impacts on human life and society. The Truth about the Truth: De-confusing and Re-construcing the Postmodern World
An anthology of essays on the postmodern era and postmodern thought in various fields including popular culture, psychology, religion and science. Reality Isn't What It Used To Be: Theatrical Politcs, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World
The social construction of reality -- how traditional societies created and maintained their ideas about the world, how postmodern artists and scholars and scientists are exposing the workings of the reality-creating machinery at the same time that new values and beliefs are being created on all sides. |
NOW BACK IN PRINT-- The Upstart Spring Esalen and the Human Potential Movement: The First Twenty Years Originally published in 1983 and long unavailable, this popular history of the famous Esalen Institute in California is now republished as an Authors Guild BackInprint.com paperback. It may be ordered from all online booksellers or directly from iUniverse.com. "The first responsible account of an important, uniquely American happening -- worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to piece together the social undercurrents of the '60s." --Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor "A charming, gossipy multiple biography of the curious gurus who spawned Esalen -- a complex story, but a sequential one nonetheless, with feuds and psychic shoot-outs, games of capture the flag and smell the roses." --Arthur Hough, San Francisco Chronicle |
