Paradigm Wars: Worldviews for a New Age

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Table of Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 15
1. Worldviews in Transition......Page 20
Worldviews and Paradigm Shifts......Page 23
Guiding Principles of Western Culture......Page 29
Ten Transformational Challenges......Page 36
Are Current Challenges Greater Than in Times Past?......Page 63
The New Age Slippery Slope......Page 66
New Age Versus New Paradigm......Page 70
Are New Age Trends Healthy?......Page 76
Criticisms of the Popular New Age Mind-Set......Page 83
What's New About the New Age?......Page 86
3. The Search for a Master Paradigm: Systems Holism and the Perennial Philosophy......Page 90
Systems Holism......Page 94
The Tao of Holism: A Defense of Fritjof Capra......Page 103
The Central Challenge for Systems Holism......Page 108
The Perennial Philosophy......Page 114
How Ought We to Connect What We Believe with What is Real?......Page 124
Perspectivism: The Mystic and the Physicist......Page 131
Why CSICOP is Losing the War......Page 135
Who's in the Channel?......Page 141
Taking Reincarnation Seriously......Page 154
Misconceptions of Reincarnation......Page 156
Varieties of Evidence for Reincarnation......Page 162
5. Energy Monism I: Consciousness and the New Physics......Page 173
Old and New Paradigms of Consciousness......Page 174
The New Physics......Page 182
From Mechanistic Science to Vibratory Science......Page 193
Applications from the Field......Page 197
6. Energy Monism II: Beyond Dualism and Materialism......Page 201
The Energy-Consciousness Underlying All Things......Page 202
The Physical/Nonphysical Continuum: Bioenergy......Page 208
What Do Kirlian Photographs Represent?......Page 213
Out-of-Body Experiences and the Mind-Body Connection......Page 217
7. The One-in-the-Many......Page 224
The Mystic's Message: Of Oneness and Nonduality......Page 225
Is Reality Structured Holographically?......Page 240
Major Levels in the Great Chain of Being......Page 248
Hierarchial Interpenetration......Page 257
Retrospect and Prospect......Page 260
The Special Case of Bell's Theorem......Page 262
The Creative Interplay of Opposites: Discovery or Invention?......Page 269
A Politically Correct Integration of Masculine/Feminine Archetypes......Page 274
Self-Organizing Systems: A Defense of Rupert Sheldrake......Page 284
Accelerated Interdimensional Integration......Page 296
Four Theories of Time......Page 301
Does the Future Already Exist?......Page 306
Must Time Have a Direction?......Page 312
The Psychology of Time's Arrow......Page 319
10. Transpersonal Psychology and Personal Growth......Page 326
Continuing Agendas for Transpersonal Psychology......Page 329
Significant Others: New Paradigms of Relationship......Page 344
Principles of Personal Growth: A Brief Commentary......Page 350
11. Health and Healing at the Crossroads......Page 368
Biomedical and Holistic Models of Health......Page 372
Do Our Minds Make Us Physically Sick?......Page 394
Psychic and Spiritual Healing: Placebos or Energy Transfers?......Page 406
Reincarnation and Abortion: When Does a Fetus Become a Person?......Page 423
Honoring the Magical Child: A Manifesto for Holistic Education......Page 430
Systems Holism and the Earth Mother: Beyond Saving the Planet......Page 443
Three Challenges for Contemporary Religion......Page 458
Creation Spirituality: A Sympathetic Critique......Page 463
The Shape of a New Religious Consciousness......Page 472
Apocalyptic Creation: Earth Changes and Millennium Fever......Page 479
Light and Darkness: Earth's Place in the Galaxy......Page 495
Government Cover-up: What do ETs Want?......Page 506
The Promise of Light......Page 538
Predictions: What Are We to Do?......Page 547
Message from Mars: Sacred Geometry and the Evolution of Consciousness by Frederick O. Mills......Page 554
Notes......Page 588
Index......Page 624