Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic ConsciousnessThree of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. • A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of human creation, and the rediscovery of traditional wisdom. In this book of "trialogues," the late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore the relationships between chaos and creativity and their connection to cosmic consciousness. Their observations call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life in the universe. The authors challenge the reader to the deepest levels of thought with wide-ranging investigations of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos in the dynamics of human creation, and the resacralization of the world. Among the provocative questions the authors raise are: Is Armageddon a self-fulfilling prophecy? Are we humans the imaginers or the imagined? Are the eternal laws of nature still evolving? What is the connection between physical light and the light of consciousness? Part ceremony, part old-fashioned intellectual discussion, these trialogues are an invitation to a new understanding of what Jean Houston calls "the dreamscapes of our everyday waking life." |
Contents
Creativity and Chaos | |
Chaos and the Imagination | |
The World Soul and the Mushroom | |
Light and Vision | |
Entities | |
The Unconscious | |
The Resacralization of the World | |
Education in the New World Order | |
The Apocalypse | |
Glossary | |
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Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness Rupert Sheldrake,Terence McKenna,Ralph Abraham No preview available - 2001 |
Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness Rupert Sheldrake,Terence McKenna,Ralph Abraham No preview available - 2001 |
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