TABLE OF CONTENTS

                    1 INTRODUCTION

Synopsis
Reverse Splitting
The Planetary Crisis
Usefulness of this Book
Social Evolution
The Eras

2 THE MODEL OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION

The Material Realm
The Social Realm
The Consciousness Realm
The Creative Model
Emergence through Mediation

3 STAGE 1 - TRIBAL HUNTING MAGIC
The Material Realm - Hunting and Gathering
The Social Realm - Community
The Consciousness Realm - Participation
Representing the Relationship between the Qualities

4 STAGE 2 - MYTHOLOGY AND THE FARMING VILLAGE

The Material Realm - Horticulture
The Social Realm - Villages and Chiefs
The Consciousness Realm - Myth
Sagan’s View
Ground Quality Representatives

5 STAGE 3 - THE WARRIOR STATE

The Material Realm - Agriculture
The Social Realm - The State
The Consciousness Realm - Gods and Heroes
Stages and Eras

6 EVOLUTIONARY DRIVING FORCES
Population/Environment Constraints
The Selection for Power
Interaction of the Driving Forces
Other Forces
Implications for Human Nature

7 THE EVOLUTION OF OPPRESSION

Archaic Oppression
Male and Female
Ground Quality Representatives
The Speedup in the Evolution of Power
Emergence, Integration, and Evolutionary Progress

8 STAGE 4 - UNIVERSAL RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Consciousness - Religion & Philosophy
Material - Gradual Technical Advance
Social - Historic Empires
Reasons for the Transition
Ground Quality Movements

9 STAGE 5 - THE MODERN ERA

The Material Realm - Industry
The Social Realm - Capitalism
Power - Democracy and Capitalism
Science
Autonomy in Consciousness
Morality
Individuality

10 THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS

Unique Dangers of the Crisis
The Suppression of Natural Living
Distribution of the Material Qualities

11 THE POPULATION EXPLOSION

The Repercussions of Population
North vs. South

12 MARKETS NOT COMMUNITIES

The Loss of Community
Power
Economics

13 LOSS OF MEANING AND VITALITY

Impairment of Empathy and Meaning
Vitality Compensation
Evolution and Addiction

14 OVERVIEW OF THE MODEL

Dialectical Views
Social Evolution and the Nature of Reality
Integration of Ground
Strategies for Change

15 COOPERATION AND DEMOCRATIC ECONOMICS

Political Power in the Model
Improving Democracy
Cooperation
A Democratic Economy
Global Governance
The Global Economy
A Vision

16 CULTURE AND GENDER

Cultural Oppression and Liberation
Gender
A Vision

17 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND POPULATION

Ecological Technology and Industry
An Ecological Economy
Population
Future Prospects

18 THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Kahler
Elgin’s Model
Wilber

19 CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION

Integrative Solutions
Advancing Reflexive Consciousness
Identity
Morality
Epistemology
Meaning
Understanding Society and Social Transformation
Summary

20 THE SOCIAL REALM

Community and Bureaucracy
Specialization and Coordination
Change
Cross-Realm Integration
Summary of Solutions

21 POSITION ANALYSIS

Relationship between the Qualities.
Dissociation of the Qualities within the Population
Positions

22 EVERYONE HAS A PART TO PLAY

Personal Qualities
Personal Positions and Life Choices
Principles of Position Analysis
My Story