Word: edens
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...MAJOR EVENT in the evolution of consciousness is the publication by a major publishing house of Ken Wilber's latest book, Up From Eden. That no one except the left-field journals like New Age and Mother Jones have reviewed this book shows how much trans-personal psychology--the study of consciousness--has to go in this country before it assumes its place as the field in social sciences...
...introductory book for the field of trans-personal psychology. Up From Eden deals with generalities that attempt to explain, well, everything. The whole world, It is Wilber's codification of what he calls the perennial philosophy, the bare-bones religious belief that the universe is the backdrop for the unfolding of consciousness culminating in humanity's reunion with some sort of Godhead--the Buddha or Hegel's Absolute Spirit or what have you Wilber does not attempt to reconcile science and religion but instead shows how they are part of the same endeavor, the Atman Project--humanity's constant striving...
...matter that the Floridian demi-Eden never got semibuilt. Today, nearly 60 years after the Florida land bubble burst, Boca Raton and its environs really are almost beyond realness. The international rich have rediscovered the Gold Coast's Palm Beach County. Though it includes the town of Palm Beach, this incubator for the newly wealthy is snob years distant from that small, code-ridden oasis of blue blood and encrusted money. The Gold Coast nouveaux, for the most part lustier, sportier and much younger than the ancien régime of Worth Avenue, converge from all over the world...
Since the Garden of Eden, Eve's descendants have covered themselves sensibly and attractively only twice-with the Greek chiton 2,000 years ago and, in the late '50s, with the designs of Balenciaga. Now in their "liberated" period, women seem more eager than ever to become enslaved to the follies and fads of the fops of fashion...
DIED. Dorothy Eden, 69, prolific writer and master of the gothic tale; of cancer; in London. Among the most popular of Eden's more than 30 romantic novels were The Vines of Yarrabee and Speak to Me of Love...