At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth: A Double BookSteinerBooks, 1990 - 446 pages Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves. |
Contents
Looking for History in LA | 3 |
Going Beyond It At Big Sur | 24 |
Getting Back to Things at MIT | 59 |
Values and Conflict Through History the view from a Canadian retreat | 92 |
AD2000 The Millennium Under New Management | 135 |
The ReVisioning of History | 152 |
The Liftoff Limits | 3 |
Walking Out On The University | 12 |
The Individual as Institution | 32 |
The World State and the Shadow of HG Wells | 60 |
Of Physics and Tantra Yoga | 90 |
Planetary Mythologies | 127 |
To Findhorn and Lindisfarne | 158 |
Common terms and phrases
American Angeles arcology artist Atlantis Auroville B.F. Skinner become began begin behavioral body C.S. Lewis Cayce century civilization Club of Rome conflict consciousness cosmic create David Spangler Diaspar Doris Lessing earth edge elite energy engineers Esalen esoteric evolution expressed fantasy Findhorn future gods Gopi Krishna Heisenberg Herman Kahn hippies human culture imagination individual industrial institution Ivan Illich Kahn kundalini liberal Lindisfarne live look mankind McLuhan meditation mind modern move movement mysticism myth nature neolithic once opposite Paolo Soleri Peccei physical planet planetary political Professor Pythagorean radicals reality religion renewal colony science fiction scientific scientists seems seminar sense sexuality simply social society Soleri space spirit Sri Aurobindo structure technocrats things thought tion tradition transformation turn urban vision Wagar Watts Weizsäcker Werner Heisenberg world view Yeats yoga yogi York
Popular passages
Page xix - A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are infolded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.