The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human DevelopmentWilber traces human development from infancy into adulthood and beyond, into those states described by mystics and spiritual adepts. The spiritual evolution of such extraordinary individuals as the Buddha and Jesus hints at the direction human beings will take in their continuing growth toward transcendence. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
The Primitive Roots of Awareness | 7 |
The Typhonic Self | 13 |
The Membership Self | 25 |
MentalEgoic Realms | 35 |
Symbols of Transformation | 43 |
Centauric Realms 33333 | 53 |
Subtle Realms | 73 |
Meditation and the Unconscious | 109 |
The Atman Project | 117 |
Evolution Through the Lower Levels | 131 |
Evolution Through the Egoic Levels | 147 |
HigherOrder Evolution | 165 |
Schizophrenia and Mysticism | 175 |
Involution | 185 |
APPENDIXREFERENCE TABLES | 205 |
Causal and Ultimate Realms | 83 |
The Form of Development | 93 |
Types of the Unconscious | 97 |
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