The Creative Irrational - The Key to Individual Consciousness and Human Success - Table of Contents - free online
by Paul R. Boudreau and Lloyd M. Dickie
Contents
Chapter 1: Humans: Essentially Irrational and Spiritual?
Irrational versus Rational/Creative versus Destructive.
Personal Experiences of The Irrational
The Spiritual
The Link between the Creative Irrational and the Spiritual
Chapter 2: The Rational in Non-Humans
Food
Shelter
Procreation
Immediate Pleasures
Summary
Chapter 3: Pre-historic/Pre-Literate Human Irrationality
Why the Need for the Creative Irrational in the Human Success Story?
Background
Containing Fire – the Initial Irrational?
Blombos Cave and Pinnacle Point Discoveries – South Africa’s contribution
Cave Paintings in the Dark
Göbekli Tepe Humans’ First Megalithic Constructions
Humans’ first city of Jericho
Summary of Pre-literate insights into the Creative Irrational
Chapter 4: The Spirituality Spectrum
Chapter 5: The Egyptian Bodies of a Human
The Bodies of a Human
The Physical Body – The Khat and The Sahu
The Soul – The Abu, the Sekhem and the Ka
The Spirit – The Ba, the Khaibit and the Akh
The Great Sun God Ra.
The Creative Irrational In The Bodies of a Human
Chapter 6: The Greek Expression of the Creative Irrational
Parmenides – As far as longing can reach
The Classic Greek Metaphor of the Spirituality Spectrum: The Allegory of the Cave
Intellectual Principle – Plotinus
Consistency in the Creative Irrational of Greek Philosophy
Chapter 7: A Modern Allegory of the Spirituality Spectrum: The Gurdjieff Work
Three Brained Beings
The Higher Reasons of Real Humans
Chapter 8: 20th Century Psychoanalysts: Different Paths and Different Insights
Nietzsche and the concept of the “Übermensch”
C.G. Jung
The Creative Irrational in the Human Psyche
Building on Opposites - From Übermensch to Enantiodromia
Psychoanalysis and the Creative Irrational
Chapter 9: Love, Comedy and Mystery: Power the Irrational
Love
Comedy
The Mystery of Time and Space
A Summary Evaluation
Chapter 10: Science versus Humanities; Rational versus Irrational - The Irreconcilable?
The Apparent Paradox between Science and the Humanities
The Origins and Evolution of Science
The 20th Century Science Revolution
Levels of Science.
The Consequences
Cautions Regarding Bias in Science
An Evaluation of Where We Have Arrived
Chapter 11: Creative Irrational in Everyone
Impressionable Irrational Creations
Nobel Prizes for Recognizing Humans are Irrational.
Chapter 12: The Essential Human Creative Irrational
Societal Implications of the Creative Irrational
Personal Implications of the Creative Irrational
Bringing it all together – Who am I?