Transpersonal Emergence

Overview

• What is The Dreaming Kosmos?
• Fundamental Concepts
• Evolutionary, Systems, and Chaos Theory and the Dreaming Kosmos
• The Biology of Evolutionary Emergence
• Precipitation, Sublimation, and the Self
• Self in The Dreaming Kosmos
• Identity and Cognitive Filters
• Relational Exchanges
• The Future of Evolutionary Emergence

1. What is The Dreaming Kosmos?

• The Dreamlike Nature of Reality (Orpheus)
• Building Blocks of The Dreaming Kosmos (Churning)
• The Dreaming Kosmos as a Multi-Perspectival Synthesis (Four Quadrants)
• The Twin Dragons of Emergence: Microcosm and Macrocosm (Dragons)
• Dream Yoga: A Doorway to Evolutionary Emergence (Flammarion)
• Chaos Theory and the Edge of Order (EES, Birth of Atum)
• IDL, Dream Yoga, and The Dreaming Kosmos
• Therapy and Evolutionary Emergence
• Dreamwork in Support of Evolutionary Emergence (Rorschach)
• The Naturalism of The Dreaming Kosmos (Plato’s Cave)
• Transformation from the Inside Out (Skeptical Scientists, Inanna)
• Perceiving The Dreaming Kosmos: Challenges and Opportunities (Ariadne and the Labyrinth)

2. Evolutionary, Systems, and Chaos Theory

• Evolutionary Theory and The Dreaming Kosmos
• Systems Theory and The Dreaming Kosmos
  • Attractors, the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, and The Dreaming Kosmos (Phoenix)
  • Holons as Attractor Basins and Frozen Processes (Shiva)
• Chaos Theory and The Dreaming Kosmos
  • Four Attractor Dimensions and the Entropic Domain (Brahmanda Egg)
  • Physics and the Entropic Domain (Indra’s Net)

3. The Biology of Evolutionary Emergence

• Ananke, Chronos, and the Biology of Emergence
• Evolutionary Emergence with Naturalistic Clarity (Prometheus)
• Evolutionary Repair, Homeostasis, and Emergence from an IDL Perspective

4. Precipitation and Sublimation

• The Noun King and the Three Great Engines of Teleology
• Precipitation in the Dreaming Kosmos
  • Precipitation and the Dreaming Kosmos (Vrtra and Indra)
  • The Precipitation of Dreams (Simurgh)
  • How Dreams Are Created
  • How Evolutionary Priorities Manifest in Dreams
• The Precipitation of Waking Reality (Indra’s Net)
• The Precipitation of Culture (Moses)
• The Tao of the Dreaming Kosmos: Feedback and Yin–Yang
• Sublimation in the Dreaming Kosmos
• Sublimation: The Return of Form to Field
• The Great Unfreezing (Proteus)

5. Self in The Dreaming Kosmos

• Precipitation, Sublimation, and Self
• Why Our Concept of “Soul” Matters
• Soul as Process Disguised as Substance (Lethe)
• Discovering Yourself Within The Dreaming Kosmos (Ptolemy)

6. Consciousness and the Dreaming Kosmos

• The Dreaming Kosmos and the Evolution of Consciousness
• Emergent Mind in a Dreaming Kosmos (Hercules)
• Understanding Consciousness from the Perspective of Evolution and IDL
• Evolutionary Emergence and the Coming Transformation of Human Consciousness

7. Identity and Cognitive Filters

• Cognitive Biases: Our Inherited Cognitive Filters
• Assumptions as Filters Defining Reality
  • Are We Asleep, Dreaming, or Sleepwalking? (Endymion)
  • What Are Our Major Dreamlike Delusions? (Maya)
    • From Delusion to Clarity: Worldviews Matter (Yggdrasil)
• Worldviews as Filters Defining Reality
  • Four Approaches to Understanding Evolution (Pangu & Egg)
  • Chinese Naturalism and The Dreaming Kosmos (Nuwa & Fuxi)
  • Dualism, Monism, and Polycentrism (Hermes & Apollo)
  • Psychological Geocentrism
    • Forces Sustaining Geocentrism — Soul
  • Psychological Heliocentrism
    • Forces Sustaining Heliocentrism — Self
• Polycentrism
• Beyond Geocentrism: Toward Lucid Identity (Narcissus)
• Empathetic Multi-Perspectivalism

8. Relational Exchanges

• Relational Emergence: From Cosmic Patterns to Inner Evolution (Isis / Osiris)
• Empathetic Multi-Perspectivalism
• Detached Awareness as an Evolutionary Imperative

9. Transpersonal Emergence

• Varieties of Oneness
• Voices from the Kosmic Dream: Spiritualism and Souls (Oracle of Delphi)
• Telepathy and Precognition as Dream-Like Connections (Cayce)
• Psychic Experiences of Skeptical Minds
• Naturalistic Explanations for Psychic Phenomena (Aboriginal Dreamtime)
• Reincarnation as Neural Resonance (Crow)
• Reincarnation as Incomplete Sublimation
• Reincarnation as Precipitation
• Reincarnating Intention
• The Lost Libraries: A Case for Recovery
  • Collective Neural Amplification
  • Cultural Archeology and Informational Resonance
  • Kosmic Informational Resonance
  • Utilizing IDL Interviewing

10. The Future of Evolutionary Emergence

• Evolutionary Questions, Evolutionary Answers
• Implications for Religion, Psychology, and Spirituality (Indra’s Net)
• Embodied Emergence and the Future of Transpersonal Psychology
• Dreaming the World Anew
• Psychological and Evolutionary Implications of Lucid Waking (Tolkien)
• Weaving the Kosmic Dream
• Changing Culture and Society from the Inside Out
• Solutions Beginning with Children and Caregivers
• Implications of a Process Worldview
• Assessing the Theory: Falsification and Empirical Validation

Appendices

• Appendix A — Theta Brain Training
• Appendix B — Dream Creation as Precipitation
• Appendix C — Models of The Dreaming Kosmos
• Appendix D — Holonic Theory and the Pre/Trans Fallacy
• Appendix E — Limits of Neo-Darwinian Evolution
• Appendix F — Comparative Dream Yoga Traditions
• Appendix G — Integral Deep Listening Practice
• Appendix H — Interviewing Protocols
• Appendix I — Dream Sociometry and IDL
• Appendix J — Ancient Library Timeline
• Appendix K — Edgar Cayce Readings Overview