Spiritual Consciousness as Evolutionary Learning: Exploring Myth, Metaphor, Magic for Sustainability [Hardcover]

Introduction

1.???? From Myth to Math: Chaos and Consciousness

2.???? Varieties of Musical Experience: Cognitive Neuroscience of Myth, Ritual, and Healing

3.???? Metaphor, Metonymy, Meronymy: Conscience as Moral Imagination

4.???? Persuasion through the Water Metaphor in Dao De Jing

5.???? Shinto and the Sacred: An Analysis of Its God-images through the Holotropic Paradigm, Jungian Archetypes, and the Imago Dei of Contemporary Psychotherapy

6.???? Sacred Knowledge of Healing, Biocultural Relations, and Modern Science in the Mayan Lowlands

7.???? Zarathushtra and The Magi: Mazdean Beliefs, Myths, and Metaphors

8.???? Bharatanatyam: The Contemporary Relevance of an Ancient Hindu Classical Dance Form

9.???? Good (PuGya) and Sinful (P
pa) Actions and their Karmic Consequences (karma phala) in Jain Karma Doctrine

10.? Buddhism and Essential Onenesses?

11.? From Gloss to Figure, Between Mythic and Divine Violence: A Comparative Reading in Benjamin Netanyahus and Abu Ubaydahs Political Exegesis of Isaiah 60:18, 1 Samuel 15:3, and Quran 9:1114

12.? From Mystical Illiteracy in the West to Creation Spirituality where Science and Mysticism Meet

13.? Is God the Lord of the Armies or the Most High? Revisiting Judeo-Christian Metaphors to Give Peace a Chance

14.? M+r+ P+r+: The Connection of Spiritual and Political Consciousness

15.? Work as Worship, Prayer as Practice

16.? Testifying about Universal Access: Liberal Quakers and the Pure Principle

17.? Gift or Exchange? The Mother or the Market?

18.? Evolutionary Learning in an Age of Mediated Illusion: Virtlc"