Overcoming Modernity

Translator's Introduction
Preface

Part I

1. The Image-Thinking of Ancient People, East and West

The Four Archai and the Human Soul
A Comparison with the Image-Thinking in Ancient India
The Chinese View of Nature Based on Qì-Energy [Jap., Ki: ¿]
The Study of "That Which Is Above Form" and Metaphysics
Logic and Being: "What Is" and "That It Is"
The Passive Understanding of "Being" [ari]
The Eternal and the Changing
The Future- Direction of Ethics and Physics
Translator's Note

2. Image-Thinking and the Understanding of "Being": The Psychological Basis of Linguistic Expression

Chinese, Japanese, and Western Expressions for "Being"
The Characteristics of Expressions in the Chinese Language
The Relation between Logic and Psychology in the Linguistic
Expressions of the Chinese and Western Languages
Logic and Lived Experience
The Cognition and Intuition of Living Nature

Part II

Translator's Note

3. What Is Synchronicity?

Introduction
The Overlap between the World of Spirit and the World of Objects
Divination of the Yìjing and Its Worldview
Parapsychology and Its Meaning
Synchronicity and Contemporary Physics
Nature's Psychoid Nature
Synchronicity and the Movement of New Age Science
Summary
Postscript
Translator's Note

4. Life and Space-Time: Synchronicity and the Psychology of the Yìjing

Introduction
The Divination of the Yìjing and the Mind-Body Relation
The Yìjing's Theory of Time
The Theory of Time and the View of Nature
The Traditional Views of Nature of the East and the West; Are Space and Time Separable?
Space and the Energy Immanent in Time
Translator's Note

5. Synchronicity and Spiritualism

The Birth of the Theory of Synchronicity
A Reexamination of the Parapsychological Disputes
"Meaningful Coincidence" and Human Life
Conclusion

Part III

Translator's Note

6. Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration: The Resurrection of Teleology

Contemporary Science and Eastern Thought
Einstein and Bergson
Is Time an Illusion?
Ripening Time
Synchronicity and the Collective Unconscious
What Is Present: The Problem of Measurement
Methodological Reflections on Science
Physics and Metaphysics

Summary
Notes
Bibliography
Index