A secret history of consciousness / Gary Lachman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lachman, Gary, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness--History.

Consciousness.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 314 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Great Barrington, MA : Lindisfarne Books, 2003.

Contents:

Part one: the search for cosmic consciousness

R.M. Bucke and the future of humanity

William James and the anesthetic revelation

Henri Bergson and the Elan Vital

The superman

A.R. Orage and the new age

Ouspensky's fourth dimension

Part two: esoteric evolution

The bishop and the bulldog

Enter the madame

Dr. Steiner, I presume?

From Goethean science to the wisdom of the human being

Cosmic evolution

Hypnagogia

Part three: the archaeology of consciousness

The invisible mind

Cracking the egg

Lost worlds

Noncerebral consciousness

The split

Part four: participatory epistemology

The shock of metaphor

The participating mind

The tapestry of nature

Thinking about thinking

The black hole of consciousness

Other times and places

Faculty X

Part five: the presence of origin

The ascent of Mount Ventoux

Structures of consciousness

The mental-rational structure

The integral structure

Last words: playing for time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314).

ISBN:

1584200111

OCLC:

51607479