Science and the reenchantment of the cosmos: the rise of the integral vision of reality

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Presents a revolutionary new theory that bridges the divide between science and spirituality Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same reality Includes contributions from Jane Goodall, Ed Mitchell, Stanislav Grof, Ralph Abraham, and Christian de Quincy, among others What scientists are now finding at the outermost frontiers of every field is overturning all the basic premises concerning the nature of matter and reality. The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence-what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.;The amazing coherence of (nearly) everything -- The rediscovery of the Akashic field -- the big questions -- The existential questions -- The integral vision of reality -- A roundtable of leading thinkers -- The furrows of reality--scientific and spiritual implications of the reenchanted cosmos -- From a mechanistic and competitive to a reenchanted and co-evolving cosmos -- the metaverse story--where science meets spirit -- consciousness in the reenchanted reality -- the akashic field and the dilemmas of modern consciousness research -- Akasha and consciousness -- the reenchanted cosmos -- the oneness of objective reality -- reconnecting with nature and cosmos -- A mystic journey into the reenchanted cosmos -- An overview of the death and rebirth of the world soul, 2500 B.C.E.-2005 c.e. -- We are not alone--a concluding note -- summing up--home again in the universe.