Chapter
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS LEADING TO SUCCESS
Chapter 2:
WHAT HATH MAN
WROUGHT:
UTOPIAN DREAMS AND DELUSIONS
UTOPIA: THE ANCIENT ADMONITION
UTOPIA: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY REALITY
Chapter 3:
NON-LINEAR FUTURE:
GLOBAL CRISES IN VIEW OF MEGA-HISTORY
1. THE CONCEPT OF CRISIS: THE LAW OF DELAYED DYSFUNCTION
AND THE RULE OF REDUNDANT VARIETY
2. ANTHROPOGENIC CRISES:
THE LAW OF TECHNO-HUMANITARIAN BALANCE
3. GROWTH AND LIMITATION OF VARIETY:
THE LAW OF HIERARCHICAL COMPENSATIONS
4. THE SPECIFICITY OF MODERN CRISIS:
“KNOWLEDGE-ENABLED DESTRUCTION”
5. COSMIC PERSPECTIVES OF INTELLIGENCE AND UNIVERSAL
NATURAL SELECTION
7. VIABILITY AND THE WORLDVIEW PARADIGMS:
IDEOLOGY VS. CIVILIZATION?
Chapter 4:
HUMAN NATURE AND COLLECTIVE WISDOM
IN AN AGE OF CRISIS
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
Chapter 5:
EVIL IN CIVILIZATIONS AND SOLUTIONS
WHAT IS EVIL? AND WHY FOCUS ON “PSYCHOPATHS”
WHATEVER THEY ARE?
ORGANIZATIONAL EVILS IN MORE DETAIL
SATANIC CULTS AND OTHER POSSIBLE EVIDENCE OF
„SUPERNATURAL‟ EVIL
THE EVOLUTION OF EVIL IN CIVILIZATIONS
Chapter 6:
REVOLUTIONS: A VIOLENT ENCOUNTER
WITH ETERNITY
INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL OUTLINE
SYMBOLISM AND POLITICAL ORDER
UTOPIA AND APOCALYPSE: SYMBOLS OF THE REVOLUTION
THE ETERNAL RETURN OF THERMIDOR
Chapter 7:
IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION:
USING SCIENCE FICTION TO OBJECTIVIZE
CRISIS AND RENEWAL
SCIENCE FICTION AS CIVILIZATIONAL CRITIQUE
APPLYING THE PLOT LINE OF DUNE TO OUR PRESENT
SCIENCE FICTION SPECULATION ON A WORLD OF
WEAPONIZED AUTOMATONS
PART II: RENEWAL OF CIVILIZATIONS
Chapter 8:
THE TRAUMA OF TIME AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF COGNITION AND MORALITY
TIME-BASED ORGANIZATION OF THE MIND
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AND OUR AWARENESS OF TIME
MIND DIVISIONS, COHESIVENESS AND CONTINUITY
CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION AS A SKILLFUL TIME MANAGEMENT
Chapter 9:
USING AXIOMS TO UNBLOCK
CIVILIZATION‟S PROGRESS
CIVILIZATION‟S PROGRESS IS BLOCKED
THE AXIOMATIC AND STATISTICAL BALANCE
A STUNT IN AXIOMATIC DEVELOPMENT
A STRUCTURE FOR EXAMINING AXIOMATIC ASSUMPTIONS
A-PRIORI MODAL ANALYSIS (APMA)
COMPARING THREE AND FOUR AXIOM SYSTEMS
CONCLUSION: RE-BALANCING STATISTICS AND AXIOMATICS
Chapter 10:
THE RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS
AND THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUALITY:
THE PSYCHOSOCIAL DYNAMICS OF MIND,
GENES, WAR AND PEACE
INTRODUCTION: A 200 YEAR HISTORY OF THE TRANSFORMATIONS
OF COGNITION, CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURAL
A SCIENTIFIC UPDATE OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL DYNAMICS OF MIND,
GENES, WAR AND PEACE
THE 4-STAGE CREATIVE CYCLE AND THE ULTRADIAN BASIC
REST-ACTIVITY CYCLE
THE 4-STAGE CREATIVE CYCLE QUALIA OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND
SPIRITUAL PRACTICE DURING THE BASIC REST-ACTIVITY
CYCLE (BRAC)
A MINI-INTERVIEW ON THE ROLE OF SCIENTIFIC SPIRITUALITY IN
OPTIMIZING THE HUMAN CONDITION
Chapter 11:
SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS AND CREATIVITY:
TWO MUTUALLY INFLUENCING PROCESSES
THAT PROMOTE HUMAN EVOLUTION
WHAT DO WE UNDERSTAND BY SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE?
THE EVOLUTION AND DISSOLUTION OF THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
AND SOCIAL BRAIN
SOCIAL EXPERIENCE INFORMS EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
KEY PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING ENGAGEMENT IN
THE SOCIAL WORLD
THE ORGANIZATION‟S COLLECTIVE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
Chapter 12:
TOWARD A NEW WORLDVIEW:
HUMANITY‟S CHALLENGE
THE KURGAN INVASIONS AND THE DOMINATOR MODEL
PATRIARCHY AND FEAR OF THE NATURAL WORLD
PARADIGM SHIFT: A WORLD IN TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 13:
MARSHALL PLAN COOPERATION AS A PROGENITOR
OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
TRANSITIONING TOWARDS GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
FROM GLOBALIZATION TO GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
THE TWO POLES OF A NEW WORLD ORDER
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
THE MARSHALL PLAN AND DECOLONIZATION
NEW EUROPEAN AND WESTERN COOPERATIVE STRUCTURES
Chapter 14:
THE MARSHALL PLAN:
HOW INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION BECAME
A GLOBAL NORM FOR AN EMERGING
NEW WORLD ORDER
THE MARSHALL PLAN: A HISTORIC EXPRESSION OF THE POWER
OF COOPERATION TO CREATE NEW GLOBAL REALITIES
COOPERATION AS AN AGENT OF TRIUMPHANT CHANGE
THE IMPORTANCE OF COOPERATION TO THE MARSHALL PLAN
THE CREATION OF THE MARSHALL PLAN
COOPERATION IN MARSHALL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
THE TRIUMPH OF COOPERATION
AMERICA AND THE POWER OF COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
Chapter 15: ON THE DESIGN OF NATIONAL WELLBEING MEASURES AND POLICIES
THE NATURE OF CRISIS AND SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
DEVELOPING WELLBEING MEASURES AND POLICIES
CONSULTING WITH CITIZENS IN THE DESIGN OF WELLBEING
MEASURES AND POLICIES
CONSULTING WITH IRISH CITIZENS AND WELLBEING EXPERTS
USING INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT
EMBEDDING SYSTEMS SCIENCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL
WELLBEING MOVEMENT
TO CONSULT OR NOT TO CONSULT, THAT IS THE QUESTION?
Chapter 16:
THE NATURE OF CRISIS AND RENEWAL
EDITOR‟S CONTACT INFORMATION
Crisis and Renewal of Civilizations: The 21st Century Crisis of Ideas and Character
( Focus on Civilizations and Cultures )
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