The Emergence of I: How the Universe Woke Up
by John Payne
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0C9K6HZW6 | 225 Pages | ePUB | 0.41 MB
Uncover a life-changing understanding of one's place in the world
Climbing up out of the universe's primordia using the rungs of matter, animal biology, and cultural enterprises such as myth, religion, literacy, and science, Consciousness has constricted itself to a place two inches behind your forehead...and it has been waiting for you to wake up.
This book will take readers on a trip that will revolutionize the way they view the world. Through an exploration of history, mythology, psychology, and mystical experience, John Payne's 'The Emergence of I' brings readers on an adventure of the development of human consciousness from the Paleolithic to the ancient Greeks and Hebrews and forward to the present time.
Benefits of reading this book:
- Transform your life with a new understanding of history and mythology.
- Discover a newfound appreciation for the power of the Self and the universe
You will learn:
- How the beginning of literacy sparked cosmic self-reflection in man
- How literacy activates left-brain views of the world and concretizes man's sense of self
- How language defines reality and gives rise to self-reflection
- How the new paradigm of consciousness gives simultaneous rise to quantum physics, modern art, music, the Internet, artificial intelligence (AI) and a new social fabric
- How the scientific model of space-time goes back over 2,000 years to the Greeks and the Hebrews
- How the universe linearized time through mankind
- About the relationship between time and eternity
- How man is the vessel through which the universe transforms itself
- How religion and consciousness are bound up with each other
- How mankind is the carrier of consciousness
- How the rise of philosophy in Greece was the result of a new paradigm borne out of the cognitive effects of the alphabet
- Where the West's sense of individualism comes from
- How human civilization's first god-kings were the first true individuals
- Explore how human ego consciousness rises and falls with civilization
- What happens to consciousness when civilization collapses
- How the integration of a Hebrew and Greek metaphysic produced the Christ figure and the subsequent Christian movement
- How the Hebrews and the Greeks created Western thought and feeling
- How Apollo builds the ego and how Dionysus breaks it
- How Dionysus and his cult were used as the antidote to ego-consciousness
- What myths like Adam and Eve, the Great Paleolithic Goddess, Philemon and Baucis, and Goethe's Faust say about human self-consciousness
- Understand how Goethe's Faust exposes modern man's dilemma of self-consciousness
- The differences between right and left-brain thinking and how some cultures lean toward one
- What the experience of Pure Consciousness or mystical experience means for your life
- How Buddha and Christ represent the two primary sides of consciousness and what that means for you
This book will open readers' eyes to the power of the Self and the universe. By the end, readers will have a new understanding of their place in the world and a newfound appreciation for the importance and power of their own consciousness.
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