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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Metaphors and Maps
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Psychological Frontiers
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Beyond Psychology: East Meets West
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Transcendence and Mysticism
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About this book
As we move into the 1980s, there is an increasing awareness that our civilization is going through a profound cultural transformation. At the heart of this transformation lies what is often called a "paradigm shift"-a dramatic change in the thoughts, perceptions, and values which form a particular vision of reality. The paradigm that is now shifting comprises a large number of ideas and values that have dominated our society for several hundred years; values that have been associated with various streams of Western culture, among them the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, The Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. They include the belief in the scientific method as the only valid approach to knowledge, the split between mind and matter, the view of nature as a mechanical system, the view of life in society as a competitive struggle for survival, and the belief in unlimited material progress to be achieved through economic and technological growth. All these ideas and values are now found to be severely limited and in need of radical revision.
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Now available in softcover! `... invaluable for those wrestling with the nature of consciousness in transpersonal and humanistic and social psychology ... Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and professional collections.' Choice
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metaphors of Conciousness
Editors: Ronald S. Valle, Rolf Eckartsberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3802-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1981
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43119-7Published: 31 May 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3802-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 544
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations