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EVOLUTION AND ARCHETYPE:

THE BIOLOGY OF JUNG


Table of Contents
(describing the book plan as of summer 2008)


  1. The Past and Future of Jung
    Jung’s Dream of a Fundamental Science
    A Look Back at Twentieth Century Social Science
    The Task Ahead
Part I: Evolution and the Archetypes
  1. Language: A Model Archetype
    Jung on the Nature of the Archetypes
    The Language Archetype
    Language and Grooming
    The Meaning of Archetype

  2. Hundred Percent Primate
    The Social Module
    The Physical Science Module
    The Natural Science Module
    Distinctively Human Creativity
    The Painted Caves
    Symbol-Using Primate

  3. The Cultural Archetypes
    The Issue of Culture
    Culture in the Upper Paleolithic
    Deep Communication Among Primates
    How Long is Culture’s Leash?
    Toward a Classification of Archetypes
    In Search of Athena
Part II: Brain and Psyche
  1. Brain, Mind and Consciousness
    Mind: An Emergent Phenomenon
    Psychic Image and Brain Image
    The Emergence of Psyche: An Analogy
    Psyche as Process, not Substance
    Psyche in Phylogenetic Perspective

  2. Ego, Self and Individuation
    The Self: Holistic Process
    The Ego: Reflective Process
    The Vagaries of Consciousness
    Dreams and Individuation
    Dreaming Process in the Neural Substrate

  3. Complex, Neurosis and Healing
    Jungs Complex Theory
    Complexes and the Neural Substrate
    The Archetypal Nature of Emotion
    Fear: An Archetypal Pattern in the Neural Substrate
    Learning to Differentiate the Fear Response
    Psychotherapy
Part III: Brain and Spirit
  1. Archetypes and Altered States
    Jung in 1925
    Altered States of Consciousness: An Overview
    Altered States and Transformation
    The Process of Transformation
    The Neuropsychology of Transformation

  2. The History of Consciousness (I): Primate Rituals
    Jung on the History of Consciousness
    A Comprehensive Approach to Ritual
    Ritual: Monkeys to Archaic Humans
    Ritual and Consciousness in the Upper Paleolithic
    The Neurobiology of Ritual in the Upper Paleolithic
    Ritual and Myth

  3. The History of Consciousness (II): Building an Ego
            Consciousness in the Upper Paleolithic
            Consciousness in the Mesolithic
    THE NEOLITHIC
            The Neolithic in the Near East
            The Neolithic in Western Europe
            Consciousness and Altered States in the Neolithic
            Dangerous Souls and Neolithic Funeral Rites
            Neolithic Elites and the Decline of Shamanism
            From the Neolithic to History
    Summary: The History of Consciousness

  4. Shamanism and the Mastery of Altered States
            Shamanism, Understood and Misunderstood
            How Shamanism Works
            Shamanism and Mastery
    SHAMANIC MASTERY:
    ANTHROPOLOGY OF AYAHUASCA USE IN THE AMAZON
            Ayahuasca: General Introduction
            Ayahuasca: Psychoactive Principles
            Ayahuasca and the Mammalian Psyche
            Ayahuasca and Mastery
    THE MASTERY OF ALTERED STATES (II): MEDITATION
            Mastering Meditative States of Consciousness
            Meditation: Tool for a Potential Science of Consciousness
Part IV: The Border Zones of Exact Science
  1. The Lawful Irrationality of Synchronicity
    Jung and the Irrational
    Jung: From Spiritualism to Synchronicity
    Synchronicity
    The Synchronistic Nature of “Psychoid” Process
    An Appeal to Chinese Metaphysics
    Synchronicity as a Cosmic Principle
    Field Theory and the Holistic Universe

  2. The Promise of Parapsychology
    Parapsychology in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Parapsychology in the Laboratory
    Spontaneous Psychics: Commonalities
    Studies in Telepathy
    Causal and Synchronistic Elements in Telepathy
    Remote Viewing: Scientific Pretensions
    Psychokinesis
    Macro-PK: The Challenge of Ectoplasm
    Eusapia Palladino
    D. D. Home
    Rudi Schneider
    Ted Serios
    A Crisis of Metaphysics

  3. Sketches of a Universal Psychoid Field
    The Holistic Trend in Physics
    Psychic Process in Simple Organisms
    Evolution and the Psychoid Field
    The Psychoid Process Encompassing an Organism and Its Surround
    Psychoid Process Promotes Novelty in Evolution
    Intentionality
    Toward a Metaphysics of the Psychoid Field
    The Process of the Universe
    Gaia: A Case in Point
    Images of the Psychoid Field: Lessons from Rupert Sheldrake
    Summary

  4. Vision and Reality
    Jung’s Positions Supported by Science
    Crossing into the Border Zones
    Parapsychology and the Psychoid Field
    The Role of Altered States


    5. Bibliography