The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development

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Quest Books, Mar 1, 1996 - Psychology - 260 pages
Wilber 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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KEN WILBER is the founder of Integral Institute and the cofounder of Integral Life. He is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the author of more than twenty books, including A Brief History of Everything, A Theory of Everything, Integral Spirituality, No Boundary, Grace and Grit, and Sex, Ecology, Spirituality.

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