Brian Swimme, Ralph Abraham, Stanislav Grof, Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, Lynn Margulis, Terence McKenna, and William Irwin Thompson present their ideas concerning the evolution of consciousness.
Foreword ix F. David Peat INTRODUCTION The Genesis and Disintegration of the Mechanical World Picture 1(24) Mary Catherine Bateson James Hillman Joanna Macy Camille Paglia James Lovelock llya Prigogine Francisco Varela Ken Wilber Part One: THE DESCENTTO EARTH 25(63) Cosmology God and the Quantum Vacuum 27(12) Brian Swimme Biology From Cellular Aging to the Physics of Angels 39(12) Rupert Sheldrake Mathematics The Foundations of Chaos 51(17) Ralph Abraham Geosciences The Evolution of Gaia 68(20) Lynn Margulis Part Two: THE RETURN TO THE SOURCE 88(90) Ethnobotany The Garden of Psychedelic Delights 91(15) Terence McKenna Psychology Birth, Death and the Beyond 106(21) Stanislav Grof Medicine The Yoga of Desire 127(15) Deepak Chopra History Bridges Between Worlds 142(21) William Irwin Thompson Conclusion The Transubstantiation of Science 163(15) Acknowledgments 178(2) Notes 180(9) Appendix Chronological List of Books for Further Reading 189(8) Bibliography 197(4) Index 201
