LEADER 03814oam 2200541I 450 001 9910150183703321 005 20250226162737.0 010 $a9780429922282 010 $a0429922280 010 $a9780429908057 010 $a0429908059 010 $a9780367103248 010 $a0367103249 010 $a9780429483288 010 $a0429483287 035 $a(CKB)3710000000929249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4733198 035 $a(OCoLC)1029232678 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9780429483288 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000929249 100 $a20181122h20182015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||####||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Sower and the Seed $eReflections on the Development of Consciousness /$fby Alan Mulhern 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cRoutledge,$d[2018]. 210 4$dİ2015. 215 $a1 online resource (263 pages) 311 08$a9781782202462 311 08$a1782202463 311 08$a9781782413769 311 08$a1782413766 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- COMMENTS BY THE ILLUSTRATOR -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: ORIGINS, BECOMING, AND EMERGENCE -- CHAPTER ONE Origins -- CHAPTER TWO Becoming -- CHAPTER THREE The emergence of human consciousness -- PART II: CONSCIOUSNESS EMERGING FROM NATURE -- CHAPTER FOUR The good mother -- CHAPTER FIVE Fertility and power -- CHAPTER SIX Earth's terror -- CHAPTER SEVEN The opposites at the root of consciousness -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Book of Job -- CHAPTER NINE Dragon fight -- PART III: SEPARATION: THE RISE AND FALL OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- CHAPTER TEN The emergence of civilisation -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Garden of Eden -- CHAPTER TWELVE Lucifer -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Banishment -- PART IV: THE FALLEN AND THE HIGHER STATES OF HUMANITY -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The fallen state -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Isis, Osiris, and Seth -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Evil and the shadow -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The higher self -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The experience of love -- PART V: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND CAPITALIST PROJECT -- INTRODUCTION The scientific revolution and capitalism -- CHAPTER NINETEEN The source of the achievements of capitalism -- CHAPTER TWENTY Capitalism as crisis -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE How has consciousness changed with capitalism? -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Death potential in consciousness -- PART VI: THE QUEST -- The individual journey of The Quest -- APPENDIX ONE -- APPENDIX TWO -- APPENDIX THREE -- APPENDIX FOUR -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX. 330 3 $aThe Sower and the Seed explores the origins of consciousness from a mytho-psychological angle. The concept of immanence, a vast intelligence within the evolutionary process, provides the underlying philosophy of the book, presented as a creative-destructive spirit that manifests higher orders of complexity (such as life, intelligence, self-consciousness) and then dissolves them. The book explores the human psyche as immersed in nature and the realm of the Great Mother, showing how the themes of fertility and power, applicable to all life forms, saturate the history of humanity - most evidently in the period stretching from 40,000 years ago up to modern civilizations. The book examines in particular the transition to patriarchal religious consciousness, in which a violent separation from the world of nature took place. 606 $aConsciousness$xResearch 615 0$aConsciousness$xResearch. 676 $a153 700 $aMulhern$b Alan$0853985 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150183703321 996 $aThe Sower and the Seed$91932672 997 $aUNINA