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The Supraconscience of Humanity

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Supraconscience of Humanity

Contributors:

By (Author) Edward H. Strauch

ISBN:

9780761851608

Publisher:

University Press of America

Imprint:

University Press of America

Publication Date:

25th May 2010

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

150

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

280

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

433g

Description

Humankind evolved through three psychological stages - subconscience, conscience, and supraconscience. Ritual and myth, cosmology and theism marked phases of psychic integration, initiating our supraconscience evolution. Four archetypes: temperance, "the great chain of being," Biblical interpretation, and Divinity became the Cosmic consciousness of secular man.

Study of Scripture developed a communal supraconscience. Mystics' dedication showed us the deeper meaning of a life purpose. Yet, heretics taught man faith in the superior power of the free mind. Heresy helped evolve humanity's secular supraconscience.

Indeed, the exponential growth of psyche's powers and the continuous revelation of new, secular knowledge seems the fulfillment of Revelation. Finally, the enlightened understood that when God created the earth, he included evolution so that our kind would evolve a superior nature.

Hence, religious and scientific, secular and humanistic developments reveal themselves to be the primary powers accelerating human evolution. Together, they have nurtured humankind's ever-evolving supraconscience.

Reviews

This book makes [Strauch] one of the true intellectuals in America. -- Dr. Charles Herberger, professor emeritus in literature
Of all your previous publications, this book is the crowning achievement of a lifetime. -- Dr. Frank P. King, professor of history

Author Bio

Edward H. Strauch, Ph.D., lived and taught in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Micronesia for thirty years. Though he received his Ph.D. in literary criticism and comparative literature, his travels led him to study how traditional beliefs evolved in both non-western and western cultures. From myths, rituals, theisms and cosmologies, he learned how man's archetypal subconscience developed into a religious supraconscience and eventually transformed into the secular supraconscience of modern man, thus creating the supraconscience of humanity.

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