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Tables of Contents for A Secret History of Consciousness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Colin Wilson
Introduction: Consciousness Explained
xxi
Part One: The Search for Cosmic Consciousness
1
52
R. M. Bucke and the Future of Humanity
3
13
William James and the Anesthetic Revelation
16
4
Henri Bergson and the Elan Vital
20
7
The Superman
27
4
A. R. Orage and the New Age
31
7
Ouspensky's Fourth Dimension
38
15
Part Two: Esoteric Evolution
53
42
The Bishop and the Bulldog
55
3
Enter the Madame
58
9
Doctor Steiner, I Presume?
67
4
From Goethean Science to the Wisdom of the Human Being
71
9
Cosmic Evolution
80
5
Hypnagogia
85
10
Part Three: The Archaeology of Consciousness
95
56
The Invisible Mind
97
6
Cracking the Egg
103
7
The Lost World
110
16
Noncerebral Consciousness
126
11
The Split
137
14
Part Four: Participatory Epistemology
151
64
The Shock of Metaphor
153
8
The Participating Mind
161
8
The Tapestry of Nature
169
10
Thinking about Thinking
179
8
The Black Hole of Consciousness
187
7
Other Times and Places
194
13
Faculty X
207
8
Part Five: The Presence of Origin
215
54
The Ascent of Mount Ventoux
217
15
Structures of Consciousness
232
16
The Mental-Rational Structure
248
8
The Integral Structure
256
13
Last Words: Playing for Time
269
8
Notes
277
32
Selected Bibliography
309
6
Acknowledgments
315