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A TMAN P ROJECT

A T RANSPERSONAL V IEW

OF H UMAN D EVELOPMENT

K EN W ILBER

T HE

Praise for

T HE A TMAN P ROJECT

" . . . a breathtakingly original achievement. . . scholarly without being trivial; metaphysical without being

obscure."

— Dr. Stanley Krippner, Program Director

Humanistic Psychology Institute

"A brilliant integration of the psychologies of East and West such as no one else has even attempted."

— Claire Myers Owens, author of Zen and the Lady

— Dr. Huston Smith, Professor of Philosophy & Religion,

Syracuse University, Visiting Professor of Religious Studies,

University of California, Berkeley

" . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the development of consciousness ..."

— Dr. Kenneth Ring, Professor of Psychology,

University of Connecticut

"The long sought Einstein of consciousness research."

— John White, author of What is Meditation

"A novel, fundamental, and brilliant reformation of human development."

— Dr. James Fadiman, Past President,

Association Transpersonal Psychology

"Few people have Ken Wilber's broad grasp and deep understanding of the many facets of Western psy-

chology. I regard (him) as the foremost writer on consciousness and transpersonal psychology in the world

today."

"Slowly but surely, book by book, Ken Wilber is laying the foundations for a genuine East/West psychol-

ogy."

— Dr. Roger Walsh, Department of Psychiatry, University of California Medical School, Irvine

CONTENTS

FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION ...............................................................6

PREFACE ......................................................................................................................10

1 Prologue......................................................................................................................13

2 The Primitive Roots of Awareness ........................................................................17

3 The Typhonic Self.....................................................................................................21

4 The Membership Self ...............................................................................................28

5 Mental-Egoic Realms................................................................................................34

6 Symbols of Transformation ....................................................................................39

7 Centauric Realms.......................................................................................................45

8 Subtle Realms.............................................................................................................58

9 Causal and Ultimate Realms....................................................................................65

10 The Form of Development ....................................................................................71

11 Types of the Unconscious ......................................................................................73

12 Meditation and the Unconscious...........................................................................80

13 The Atman Project ..................................................................................................85

14 Evolution Through the Lower Levels ..................................................................93

15 Evolution Through the Egoic Levels ................................................................ 103

16 Higher-Order Evolution ...................................................................................... 114

17 Schizophrenia and Mysticism.............................................................................. 120

18 Involution............................................................................................................... 126

APPENDIX-REFERENCE TABLES .................................................................. 138

Bibliography ................................................................................................................ 146

Roger Walsh,

Whom I am proud to call

friend.

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