The global brain : the awakening earth in a new century / Peter Russell
- Bib ID:
- 4279782
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Russell, Peter, 1946-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- [3rd ed.]
- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Floris Books, 2007
- 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780863156168
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Invitation 23
- Part 1. The Bigger Picture
- 1. New Views of Earth 29
- 2. The Gaia Hypothesis 35
- 3. Living Systems Theory 41
- Part 2. Evolution Past, Present, and Future
- 4. The Evolution of Matter 51
- 5. Hidden Orders in Evolution 67
- 6. The Increasing Tempo of Evolution 81
- 7. Growing Numbers 91
- 8. Towards a Global Brain 99
- 9. An Emerging Social Super-organism 111
- Part 3. Inner Evolution
- 10. Synergy 123
- 11. The Skin-Encapsulated Ego 127
- 12. Low-Synergy Society 139
- 13. The Quest for Unity 149
- 14. Awakening the Self 157
- 15. Healing the Planetary Cancer 169
- 16. A Spiritual Renaissance 173
- 17. The Dawning of a New Era 187
- 18. On the Threshold 193
- 19. Mind Links 201
- 20. Towards a High-Synergy Society 209
- 21. A Synchronistic World 221
- 22. Choosing the Future 231
- Epilogue
- 23. Beyond Gaia 241
- Further Reading 251.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- First published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982 as The awakening earth, our next evolutionary leap.
- Published in U.S.A. as The global brain: speculations on the evolutionary leap to planetary consciousness by J.P. Tarcher in 1983.
- 'This third edition largely follows the text of that second edition.' --p.18.
- Bibliography: p. 251-255.
- Subject:
- Evolution
- Other authors/contributors:
- Russell, Peter, 1946-. Global brain awakens : our next evolutionary leap
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