{"id":581,"date":"2022-07-30T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/?page_id=581"},"modified":"2022-07-30T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:30:39","slug":"the-enigma-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/the-enigma-of-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enigma of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

This beautiful\u00a0 276-page 7.5 X 9.25 inch book with many helpful charts spells out important perspectives with full illustrations and careful definitions of the human approaches to truth, consciousness, wonder, and religion.<\/p>\n

The nature of good religion is indicated by this story of a student who asked his meditation teacher if meditation causes enlightenment. \u201cNo,\u201d said the teacher, \u201cenlightenment is an accident, but meditation makes one more accident prone.\u201d\u00a0 If \u201creligion\u201d is defined as any practice that opens us to the enlightenment of wonder, then good religion is any practice that makes us more accident prone to the gift of wonder-filled living.\u00a0 Because wonder is foundational in human existence, every long-standing\u00a0 human society has come up with some form of wonder-filled religion.\u00a0 This also explains why religion appears as one of the down-to-Earth social processes in human society along with education, economic systems, and sewage disposal.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are some words of endorsement for this book.
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With clarity and abundant insights, Gene Marshall proposes ways by which we can move beyond old forms to those that would enable us\u00a0to manifest qualities of “profound humanness.”\u00a0\u00a0He has given us a roadmap constructed of vital possibilities, which are urgently needed in\u00a0this time of multiple crises when the status quo simply will not do.
\n\u2013Charlene Spretnak: author of\u00a0 Relational Reality,\u00a0The Resurgence of the Real, and\u00a0States of Grace; Ojai, CA<\/p>\n

The truth of reality is a mystery\u2014in Gene Marshall\u2019s language, \u201can almighty\u00a0unknown\u201d\u2014but reality is ever-present to our consciousness. \u00a0To know what is\u00a0known, or to make reality real, these are the profundities that Marshall\u00a0systematically and thoughtfully probes in an analysis that rings as earnest and\u00a0true as the author who penned it.
\n\u2013Dr. Jeffrey W. Robbins: Professor and Chair of Religion and Philosophy;\u00a0Lebanon Valley College; Annville, PA<\/p>\n

Gene Marshall coaxes the reader beyond the limiting enclosure of the\u00a0personality-centered self and ego mind and into the realm of authentic personal\u00a0interior experience. \u00a0The author lifts the fog created by the pesky self-serving\u00a0human mind regarding the interior life, and provides a path of clarity into\u00a0depth states of being.
\n\u2013Michael D. May: Teacher, Group Discussion Leader, Curriculum Editor for\u00a0Interior Mythos Journeys; Bloomington, IN<\/em><\/p>\n

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Table of Contents<\/em><\/big><\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acknowledgments<\/em>
\nIntroduction:\u00a0 The Meaning of Enigma<\/p>\n

Part One: What is Truth<\/strong>?<\/big><\/big>
\n1. Beyond Consilience
\n2. The Scientific Approach to Truth
\n3. Cause, Chance, and Choice
\n4. The Contemplative Approach to Truth
\n5. It, I, and We
\n6. The \u201cWe\u201d Approach to Truth
\n7. Open and Closed Societies<\/p>\n

Part Two: What is Consciousness?<\/strong><\/big><\/big>
\n8.\u00a0 Qualities of Consciousness
\n9.\u00a0 A Sixth Force in the Structure of the Cosmos
\n10. Consciousness and Evolution
\n11. Five Layers of Consciousness<\/p>\n

Part Three: Inescapable Wonder<\/strong><\/big><\/big>
\n12. The Thought, Feel, and Choice of Wonder
\n13. Space\/Time, the Eternal Now, and the Enigma of the \u201cI Am\u201d
\n14. Nine Aspects of the \u201cI Am\u201d
\n15. Nine Habits of Escape from the \u201cI Am\u201d
\n16. The Journey into Profound Humanness<\/p>\n

Part Four: What is Religion?<\/strong><\/big><\/big>
\n17. The Death of Mythic Space and the Redefinition of Religion
\n18.\u00a0 The Origin of Religion, a Speculative Story
\n19. Religion as Practice
\n20. Religion as a Social Process\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n21. The Vital Variety of Religious Practices<\/p>\n

Part Five: Six Ways to Imagine the Unimaginable<\/strong><\/big><\/big>
\n22. Six Primal Metaphors for Religious Formation
\n23 The Primal Metaphor of\u00a0 Sub-Asia
\n24. The Primal Metaphor of Arabia
\n25. The Primal Metaphor of Europe.
\n26. The Primal Metaphor of the Orient
\n27. The Primal Metaphor of Sub-Saharan Africa
\n28. The Primal Metaphor of Native America
\n29. Spirit Completeness beyond all Metaphors<\/p>\n

Part Six:\u00a0 A Being Basis for Responsible Action<\/strong><\/big><\/big>
\n30. A Being Basis for Responsible Action
\n31. The Roots of Motivation
\n32. Radical Monotheism as Center of Value
\n33. Contextual Ethics and Responsible Action
\n34. The Universal League of Profound Humanness
\n35. The Battle with Dysfunctional Religion<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Short Reading List
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