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ROSZAK, THEODORE Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousness
Faber and Faber, 1975. Trade Paperback. Good. Ink marks in text, light cover edge wear. CONTENTS: Introduction: Pico's Chameleon and the Consciousness Circuit; Aquarian Frontier - Religion by Any Other Name; The Whole Holy Works; "A Parliament of Monsters"; The Traumas of Rebirth; An Ecology of the Spirit; God Between the Carnival and the Computer - Satori and the Encephalograph; The Split-Brain Follies; In the Shadow of the Great Beast; Erich von Daniken and His Chariots of the Gods; Wilhelm Reich and His Orgone Box; Uri Geller and His Kitchen Spoons; Demon Deus Inversus Est; Freaks: The Evolutionary Image of Human Potentiality; The Few Once Upon A Time; Evolution in a New Key; Try Not to Forget; Destiny, Value, Intention; The Hidden Wisdom; The Romantic Connection; The Occult Evolutionists: From Secret Doctrine to Eupsychian Therapy - madame Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine; Rudolf Steiner's Akashic Rhapsody; Gurdjieff's Therapy by Ordeal; The Evolution We Deserve; Triangles, Sacred and Profane: The Visionary Origins of Culture - The Habit of Duality; Theme and Variations; Culture Upside Down; From Myth to History; From Magic to Technology; From Mystery to Reason; Blind Alley; The Higher Sanity and Its Competitors - Freud: The Sanity of Tragic Humanism; Behaviorism: The Sanity of Adjustment; Radical Therapy: The Sanity of Social Relevance; R.D. Laing: The Sanity of Madness; Human Potentials: The Sanity of Gratification; The Planetary Dialogue; Ethics and Ecstasy: Reflections on an Aphorism by Pathanjali; The Centers of Consensus: Reconnaissance of the Next Reality; Material Simplicity, Visionary Abundance; The Center of Consensus - Potentiality-Upaya-Transpersonal Subjectivity-Universality-Wholeness-Organicism-Illumination of the Commonplace-Satsang; Index of Names. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Theodore Roszak (born 1933) is an American professor, social thinker, writer, and critic. He chronicled and gave explanation to the European and North American counterculture phenomenon of the late 1960s in his book The Making of a Counter Culture (1969). Later, his writings (e.g. Person/Planet) were often associated with the 'alternative,' 'new age,' or 'resacralization' movements. Initially, Roszak was much influenced by thinkers like: Alan Watts and Jacques Ellul, and, somewhat later, by modern theosophists such as H. P. Blavatsky and Rudolph Steiner. In Where the Wasteland Ends Roszak draws on such historical theorists and poets as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake (in particular, Blake's critique of 'the industrial spirit'), and what has recently been referred to as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'holistic science'. While staying in touch with many contemporary and emerging thinkers (and historical giants of thought), Roszak seems in his writings to rest more on his own personal experiences. His interest has been drawn strongly in the direction of the import of ecology and the relevance of the environmental movement. In the more recent The Voice of the Earth, Roszak made a big contribution to 'ecopsychology' by exploring what he views as a correlation between the degraded condition of the Earth and an uneasy state of the human psyche, which he first took up in Person/Planet. The kernel of Roszak's outlook is something well articulated by Plato (in Timaeus) many centuries ago-that the cosmos is 'a living creature, one and visible, containing within itself all living creatures, which are by nature akin to itself'. It is a viewpoint that has had many other spokespeople through the centuries, in the West and the East. For instance, at the beginning of the twentieth century the Canadian psychiatrist Richard Bucke assembled a compendium of excerpts from many authors, both famous and unknown, on the subject. This was because Bucke himself had had a very vivid experience of the cosmos as a 'living presence.'".
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