Metaconsciousness
Mythology for a Post-Civilized World

by J. Harmon Grahn

Copyright

Copyright © 2005, 2006 J. Harmon Grahn. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections; with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "Appendix A. GNU Free Documentation License".

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Contents

Volume I: The Human Predicament
       Prologue
  1. Genesis and Evolution of Metaconsciousness
  2. Is Civilization Committing Suicide?
  3. Metaconsciousness Among the Microbes
  4. Metaconsciousness Among the Quantum Fields
  5. The River and the Cataract
  6. Higher Ground
  7. The Hacker Tribe
  8. Street-Smart Savvy
  9. Lessons From the Bazaar
10. Lessons From Life
11. Lessons From History
12. The Future of the Future
13. September 11, 2001
14. Toward a Post-Civilized Mythology

Volume II: Open-Source Post-Civilized Mythologies
15. A Post-Civilized Creation Myth
16. Myth of a Golden Age
17. The Myth of Human Destiny
18. The Myths of Infinity and Hierarchy
       Epilogue
       Bibliography

       Appendix A. GNU Free Documentation License
       Appendix B. How to use this License for your documents
       Appendix C. Revision History of This Document