The Evolution of Consciousness
Seven Steps of Integral Healing
Published on 6. June 2023
190 pages
978-3-347-95481-6 (ISBN)
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The Evolution of Consciousness - The entire history of mankind affects our inner life, mostly without our knowledge. Often this influence on our soul is so subtly and finely ingrained in our patterns of behaviour that we view them as a matter of course, unaware that and how they separate us from what we really want and what is important to us.
In a way, our personal life story represents a miniature repetition of human cultural development in general. The challenges we are confronted with our individual lives are similar to those that all man-kind has had to take up. Thus, we can learn from our precursors in history how we might succeed in life but also how we might fail.
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Foreword by the Editor
- Foreword by the Author
- Culture, Consciousness, and Evolution - an Introduction
- Cultural Evolution and Consciousness
- The Stages of Evolution from a Cultural Viewpoint
- The Stages of Individual Development
- The Organic Foundations of Life and Evolution
- The Biological Foundation of Religion
- Growth State and Protective State
- The Foundation of Human Emotions
- Two Driving Forces of Evolution
- The Seven Stages of Consciousness
- Stage 1: Tribal Consciousness - Humanity as Belonging Together
- Ritualized Communities
- The Concept of the Social Contract
- The Nature-Man Continuum
- Tradition
- Rituals
- Excursus: The Further History of the Ritual
- Shamanism
- Superstition
- Our Tribal Roots
- The Ancestor's Exercise
- The Circle Practice
- The Tree Exercise
- Stage 2: Emancipatory Consciousness - the Human Quality of Individualisation
- Abandoning the Traditions
- Dissociation from the Body
- The Emancipation of Sustenance
- Social Differentiation and Linear History
- The Genesis of the Hero
- Patricide and the Origin of Patriarchy
- The Invention of Polarity
- The Power of the Intellect: Heroes of the Mind
- Our Emancipatory Roots
- The Energy of the Transition to Adulthood
- The Departure
- Challenges
- Stage 3: Bureaucratic Consciousness - Human Life in Organisations
- The Necessity of Order
- The Bureaucratisation of Individuals
- Norming by Shame
- The Institutionalisation of Violence
- World Religions
- The Domination of Nature
- Creativity at the Bureaucratic Stage
- Our Hierarchical Roots
- Reflections on Patterns of Authority
- Familiarisation with and Dissolution of One's Shame
- Finding Security Within
- Stage 4: Materialistic Consciousness - Man and Achievement
- A New Dynamic
- The Power of Numbers and Figures
- The Principle of Permanent Change
- Capitalism
- The Attitude towards Reproduction in Materialism
- Socialism
- Self-reproduction in Addiction
- Our Attachment to the Stage of Materialism
- Materialistic Fear
- Patterns of Stress
- Resolution of Stress
- Stage 5: Personalistic Consciousness - Human Self-Realisation
- From the Uniformity of the Manifold to Quality
- The Difference Between Stage Two and Stage Five
- Creativity
- Inner Worlds
- Turning Inside
- Excursus: The Bourgeoisie
- Ideology and Religion
- The Power of Knowledge and the Endless Train of Questions
- Nature
- The Problem of Theodizee as Example
- Social Structures in Personalistic Consciousness
- The World Wars as Shock for Personalistic Consciousness
- Problems for the Transition from Stage Five to Six
- Our Inner Imprintings of the Personalistic Stage
- Pride
- Creativity
- Qualities
- Your Part in Life
- Stage 6: Systemic Consciousness - Man in the World of Networks
- Life in Larger, Flexible Contexts
- Systemic Thinking and Constructivism
- The Constructivist Approach
- A Farewell to Habits of Thinking
- A Farewell to Structures of Power and Violence
- The End of Fixations and Alternative Thinking
- The Attitude of Serving
- Communities
- Arts and Entertainment
- Love and Relationships at the Systemic Stage
- Religion and the Sacred
- The Ambivalence of Systemic Consciousness
- Our Inner Imprints of the Systemic Stage
- Systemic Perception
- Assumed Values and Attitudes
- Conflict
- Work and Servitude
- Stage 7: Holistic Consciousness - on the Path to Perfection
- Liberation from Fear
- The Path to Inner Freedom
- The Great Interwovenness
- Purifying Spirituality
- Holistic Activity in the Name of Unity
- Overcoming Conflicts of Judgement
- The Simplitude of Truth
- The Experience of Time
- Integrating Earlier Stages of Consciousness
- Striving for Holistic Consciousness
- Being in the Present Moment
- Peak Experiences
- The Compassion Exercise
- The Vista of a Global Community
- Conclusion One: A Global Government
- Conclusion Two: Equal Opportunities
- Conclusion Three: Nature and Creativity
- Conclusion Four: Diversity
- Appendix: Other Models of Evolution
- On the Concept by Ken Wilber
- Differences to the Model of Spiral Dynamics (Graves, Beck and Cowan)
- About the Author
