商品簡介
"For chose travelers seeking meaning in this crisis-riven time, here is both map and provisions for the journey.... I bow to Kelly's respect for the radical uncertainty facing us now. His work illumines not only the inescapable nature of this uncertainty, but also its capacity to awaken and ennoble us at this turning in our human journey."-JOANNA MACY, author of World as Lover, World as Self
Kelly's discovery of large overarching fractual patterns in history not only illuminates humanity's past, but also helps us understand the planetary crises we are currently facing and offers an original, insightful perspective on our future. This brilliant book is a treasure trove of profound ideas that is bound to become a classic."-Stanislav Grof, MD, author of Psychology of the Future; the Cosmic Game; and When the Impossible Happens
With the threat of global climate change, a looming mass extinction of species, and increasingly complex and volatile geopolitical relations, the entire Earth community has entered a most critical phase of what the author describes as the "Planetary Era." This era began some five hundred years ago with the conquest of the Americas and the Copernican revolution in cosmology, bur it is only now becoming a defining feature of human consciousness on a global scale.
How did the Planetary Era come about, and why was it initiated in the European West? What elements in the evolution of the Western worldview might contribute to the actualization of a sustainable planetary culture? Drawing from a wide range of panoptic or -big-picture" thinkersufrom Hegel and Tcilhard de Chardin to C. C. Jung, Richard Tarnas, and Edgar Morin, among many othersuthe author answer, such questions while presenting his ow n synthetic theory of the resolution of consciousness leading to the birth and transformation of the Planetary Era, Beginning with a consideration of the fundamental pattern of world history, Coming Home reveals the role or a -Great Code" and the turnings ofa tightening spiral in the evolution ofthe last too thousand \ ears of Western, and now increasingly planetary, consciousness. Along with a vision (it the path that ha, lead to our sexed and complex present, the author gives reason to hope that we are on the threshold of a new countercultural resurgence-a new planetary wisdom culture that might signal the homecoming for which our troubled world so desperately longs.
作者簡介
SEAN M. KELLY, PhD., is Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is the author of Individuation and the Absolute: Hegel, Jung, and the Path toward Wholeness. Sean is also coeditor (with Donald Rothberg) of Ken Wilberin Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers and a translator (with Roger Lapointe) of French thinker Edgar Morin's book Homeland Earch: A Manifesto for the New Millennium. In addition to his academic work, Sean has trained intensively in Chinese internal arts (taiji, bagua, and xingyi) and has taught taiji since 1990.
