The supraconscience of humanity
By: Edward H. Strauch
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780761851592; 9780761851608
Subjects: Conscience; Cosmology; Humanity; Mensheid; Bewustzijn
Description: "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.

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. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The psyche's struggle for survival. Conscience versus subconscience; title: pt. 2. The beginning of the supraconscience. The afterlife as world view: the subconscience versus supraconscience ; Myth, ritual, cosmologies and theism ; Four archetypes of the emerging supraconscience; title: pt. 3. The Bible as evidence of humanity's evolving supraconscience. The Old Testament: the law and historical books ; The Old Testament: the poetical and prophetic books ; The New Testament; title: pt. 4. The supraconscience: historical and modern. Mystics and mysticism ; A twenty-first century version of heresy; title: pt. 5. The inferior versus superior destiny of humankind. The conflict between the inferior and superior human nature ; The psyche's journey through time.