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Metaconsciousness
Mythology for a Post-Civilized World

by J. Harmon Grahn


V 4.1.1
17 December 2006

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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
  Introduction to Volume I
  Prologue
     What I Mean by Myth
     What I Mean by Metaconsciousness
     What I Mean by Tribe
     The Parable of the Tribes
     Why You Should Listen to Me
I.1. Genesis and Evolution of Metaconsciousness
I.2. Is Civilization Committing Suicide?
     The Elements of Metaconscious Entities
     The Cellular Suicide of Civilization
     Challenges & Confirmations for the Metaconsciousness Myth
     The Barnyard Pecking Order
     Lessons From the Barnyard
I.3. Metaconsciousness Among the Microbes
I.4. Metaconsciousness Among the Quantum Fields
     The Mind-Matter Problem
     The Beginning of "Quantum Weirdness"
     Heisenberg May Have Slept Here
     Nonlocality
     Yes, but What Does it Mean?
     Additional Contours of the Metaconsciousness Myth
I.5. The River and the Cataract
I.6. Higher Ground
I.7. The Hacker Tribe
I.8. Street-Smart Savvy
I.9. Lessons From the Bazaar
     How Do They Do It?
     Alternatives to "Rolling Over and Playing Dead"
     Metaconsciousness in Action
I.10. Lessons From Life
     My Approach to Dealing with "Civilization"
     What I Want
I.11. Lessons From History
     The Prognosis for Humankind
     Dominator and Partnership Civilizations
     The Rise and Fall of Minoan Crete
     The Revised History of Old Europe
     Lessons From Old Europe
I.12. The Future of the Future
     The Myth of Free Energy
     The Down Side of Free Energy
I.13. September 11, 2001
I.14. Toward a Post-Civilized Mythology
     Elements of the Metaconsciousness Myth
     If Not This, What?
     Santiago Atitlan
     Social Survival and Collapse
     Easter Island
     Tikopia
     Nauru
     Toward a Post-Civilized Mythology

Volume II: Open-Source Post-Civilized Mythologies
  Introduction to Volume II
II.1. A Post-Civilized Creation Myth
II.2. Myth of a Golden Age
     Uncanny Maps
     Ancient Egypt
     The Coral Castle
     Baalbek
     Myth of a New Golden Age
     The Masculine/Feminine Nexus
     The Example of the Bonobos
     Gateway to a New Golden Age
II.3. The Myth of Human Destiny
     Learning to Live Within Our Means
     Conditions for Social Success
     The Wider Dimensions of Warfare
     Warfare and Predation
     The Games of Life, and "Win all the Marbles"
     Getting "There" from "Here"
     Open-Source Metaconscious Projects
     Public Key Data Encryption
     The Sometimes Surprising Impacts of New Technologies
II.4. The Myths of Infinity and Hierarchy
     There is no Hierarchy
     The Infinite and the Infinitesimal
II.5. The Myth of Objective Reality
     Infinity and Complementarity, Again
     "Post-Civilized" Physics
     The F-word
     Transition to "Post-Civilization"
     A "Post-Civilized" Myth About "Objective Reality"
     Conclusion
  Epilogue

Volume III: Visions of Future History
  Introduction to Volume III
III.1. Vision for a Future History
     Rite of Passage
     The Mounting Crisis
     The Very Last Day
     The Aftermath
     The Dawn of True Humanity
     The Resurrection of the Dead
     Industry
     Conclusion
  Cumulative Bibliography
  Appendix A. GNU Free Documentation License
  Appendix B. Acknowledgments and Appreciation
  Appendix C. Revision History of This Document


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