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Deutero-learning: see Learning II.

 

 

Developmentals: Incomplete psychic structures, such as ego and language,
that are innate in the human being in embryonic or potential form. In
order to be realized, their program of biological development must
interact with particular social or cultural experiences at a specific
stage in the life cycle.

 

 

Dialectical reason: Mode of analysis that sees things and their opposites
as related. In this view, love and hate, or resistance and attachment,
are not opposites but two sides of the same coin. The logic of dreams,
or primary process (qv), is dialectical.

 

 

Digital knowledge: see Analogue knowledge.

 

 

 

 

Eidos: see Ethos.

 

 

Entropy: Measure of randomness, or disorganization. The opposite is
negative entropy, or information. A system is said to have meaning
when it gives us information, and it has such meaning when pattern,
or redundancy, is present.

 

 

Epistemology: Branch of philosophy that attempts to determine the nature
of knowing, or what the human mind can legitimately hope to discover
about the objective world. The study of how the mind knows what
it knows.

 

 

Ethos: Overall emotional tone of a culture; its affective paradigm (qv),
or system of sentiments, as opposed to the 'Eidos,' which is its
cognitive paradigm, or intellectual world view. Eidos thus refers
to the reality system of a culture, whereas ethos approximates the
"etiquette," or norms of cultural behavior.

 

 

 

 

Fact-value distinction: Consciousness of the modern scientific era,
according to which the good and the true are not necessarily related;
value or meaning cannot be derived from data or empirical knowledge.

 

 

Feedback: In cybernetic theory, the use of part or all of the output of
a system (e.g., a system of temperature control in a house) as input
for another phase. Negative or self-corrective feedback, which is
obtained by feeding the results of past actions back into a system,
enables the system to maintain homeostasis (qv); such a situation
is also called optimization. In a runaway situation, the feedback
is positive, or escalating, building to a climax over time. In this
situation the system is attempting to maximize certain variables rather
than optimize them. Cf. Circuitry.

 

 

Figuration: Formation of mental pictures or images from the data of pure
sensations. If I smell coffee and the picture of a cup of coffee
suddenly comes to mind, I can be said to have figurated it.

 

 

 

 

Gestalt: A totality of interlocking imagery or concepts having specific
properties that cannot be derived from its component parts. A pattern
or world view that possesses a certain unity. Cf. Holism.

 

 

 

 

Holism: Also called synergy, or the synergistic principle. Holds that
a collection of entities or objects can generate a larger reality not
analyzable in terms of the components themselves; that the reality of
any phenomenon is usually larger then the sum of its parts.

 

 

Homeostasis: Tendency of any system to maintain or preserve itself,
to return to status quo if disturbed. A homeostatic system is steady
state: it seeks to optimize rather than maximize the variables within
it. Cf. Circuitry, Feedback.

 

 

 

 

Iconic communication: see Analogue knowledge.

 

 

Immanence: Doctrine that God is present within the phenomena we see,
rather than external to them. Pantheism, animism (qv), and
Batesonian holism are all variations on this theme. Contrasted with
Transcendence, which sees God in heaven, external to the phenomena
around us. Cartesianism and mainstream Judeo-Christian thinking fall
into this category.

 

 

Individuation: According to Carl Jung, a process of personal growth
and integration whereby a person evolves his true center, or Self,
as opposed to his ego. The ego, or persona, is seen as the center
ofconscious life, whereas the Self is the result of bringing the
conscious mind into harmony with the unconscious.

 

 

 

 

Kinesics: Study of body language and nonverbal communication, including
posture, gesture, and movement, as clues to human personality and
interaction.

 

 

Lapis-Christ parallel: Analogy between Christ and the work of alchemy.
This was part of the claim, occasionally made in the Middle Ages,
that alchemy was the inner content of Christianity, and that the
manufacture of the philosopher's stone ('lapis') was equivalent to
the Christ-experience.

 

 

Learning I: The simple solution of a specific problem.

 

 

Learning II: Progressive change in the rate of Learning I. Understanding
the nature of the context (qv) in which the problems posed in Learning
I exist; learning the rules of the game. Equivalent to paradigm (qv)
formation.

 

 

Learning III: An experience in which a person suddenly realizes the
arbitrary nature of his or her own paradigm (qv), or Learning II, and
goes through a profound reorganization of personality as a result. This
change is usually experienced as a religious conversion, and has been
called by many names: "satori," God-realization, oceanic feeling,
and so on.

 

 

 

 

Meristic differentiation: Repetition of like parts or segments along
the axis of an animal, as in the earthworm.

 

 

Metacommunication: Communication about communication. "What is the nature
of this conversation?" is a metacommunicative statement.

 

 

Metamerism: Dynamic asymmetry, or serial difference, between the
successive segments of the parts of an animal; the claw of the lobster,
for example. The animal displaying metamerism generally has most
of its parts similar to each other, as in meristic differentiation,
but with some marked by special asymmetric development.

 

 

Mimesis: Greek word for imitation, and the root of English words such as
"mime" and "mimicry." More broadly, submitting to the spell of a
performer, or becoming immersed in events; the state of consciousness
in which the subject/object dichotomy breaks down and the person
feels identified with what he or she is perceiving. Also called
participating consciousness. It includes original participation,
but is not necessarily animistic. See Archaic tradition.

 

 

 

 

Nonparticipating consciousness: State of mind in which the knower,
or subject "in here," sees himself as radically disparate from the
objects he confronts, which he sees as being "out there." In this view,
the phenomena of the world remain the same whether or not we are present
to observe them, and knowledge is acquired by recognizing a distance
between ourselves and nature. Also called subject/object dichotomy.

 

 

 

 

Original participation: see Animism.

 

 

Paradigm: A world view or mode of perception; a model around which
reality is organized. Cf. Gestalt.

 

 

Participation, or Participating consciousness: see Archaic tradition,
'Mimesis.'

 

 

Prima materia, or Materia prima: Literally, first matter. In alchemy,
it was the formless substance that resulted when a metal was dissolved,
and from which the alchemical work of coagulation or recrystallization
was begun. In allegory or personal growth (see Individuation), the stage
of chaos from which a new form or personality will eventually congeal.

 

 

Primary process: Thought patterns associated with the unconscious, such
as dream imagery, as opposed to rational ego-consciousness, or secondary
process. See Archaic tradition.

 

 

Principle of incompleteness: Theory that most of our knowledge of the
world is tacit in nature (see Tacit knowing) and thus that it has an
ineffable basis, as a result of which it cannot be described in any
rationally coherent sense. Furthermore, the principle sees the process
of reality itself as ontologically incomplete. This theory is directly
opposed to the Cartesian paradigm which holds that the mind can know
all of reality; and also to the Freudian view, that all unconscious
material can and should be made conscious.

 

 

Proto-learning: see Learning I.

 

 

 

 

Radical relativism: A possible consequence of the sociology of knowledge,
that if all realities or methodologies are a product of specific
historical circumstances, then all truth is relative to its individual
context and there is no absolute or transcultural truth. This also
implies that any given epistemology or world view is as accurate,
or no less accurate, than any other.

 

 

 

 

Second Law of Thermodynamics: States that everything naturally tends
toward entropy (qv). It is for this reason that the creation of
information, or meaning, is seen as requiring effort.

 

 

Shadow: In Jungian terminology, the repressed and unconscious part of the
personality which has to be recognized and integrated by the conscious
mind in the process of individuation (qv). More broadly, the shadow
is the undeveloped side of any natural pair of character traits. Men
typically have a feminine shadow ("anima") and a women a masculine one
("animus"); sadists also possess a streak of masochism; very serious
persons have an unexpressed frivolous side, and so on.

 

 

Solve et coagula: Literally, dissolve and coagulate, a phrase summarizing
the essence of the alchemical process. This involves reduction to the
'prima materia' (qv) and then gradual fixation into a new pattern.

 

 

Steady state: Homeostasis (qv). The term is also used to refer to any
type of nonprofit-oriented economy (e.g., feudalism) that does not
expand over time, but only seeks to maintain itself.

 

 

 

 

Tacit knowing: Subliminal awareness and comprehension of information,
especially information about the particular paradigm (qv) into which a
given person is born. This operates on a gestalt and unconscious level,
and consists of the ethos (qv) of a culture as well as the eidos. The
concept of tacit knowing presupposes that any articulated world view
is the result of unconscious factors that are culturally as well as
biologically filtered and influenced. See also Gestalt, Principle of
incompleteness, Figuration, Analogue knowledge.

 

 

Teleological: Pertaining to purpose, or goal. Aristotelian physics is
termed teleological because it argues that objects fall to earth
because they seek it as their natural place.

 

 

Teratology: Study of monstrosities, or abnormal formations in the animal
and plant kingdoms.

 

 

Theory of Logical types: As formulated by Alfred North Whitehead and
Bertrand Russell, this theory states that no class of objects,
as defined in logic or mathematics, can be a member of itself. As a
logical construct, for example, we can form a class consisting of all
the elephants that exist in the world. The theory states that this
construct is not itself an elephant; it has no trunk, and eats no
hay. The essential point of the theory is that there is a fundamental
discontinuity between a class and its members.

 

 

Transcendence: see Immanence.

 

 

Trans-contextual: The characteristic of seeing things or situations as
having a symbolic as well as a literal dimension. Madness, humor, art,
and poetry are all trans-contextual in nature, operating on the level
of metaphor or "double take."

 

 

Transform: In cybernetic theory, a change in the structure or composition
of information without any corresponding alteration in meaning.
Cf. Coding.

 

 

 

 

Index
Accademia del Disegno, 49
Achebe, Chinua, 84
Achinstein, Peter, 133, 323
Addiction 166, 242-43;
and acclimation, 260-63.
See also Alcoholism; Drug use
Agricola, Georg, 43, 95-97, 318
Agrippa von Nettesheim, 63, 67, 94, 313
Alchemical world view.
See Hermetic tradition
Alchemy, 61-105, 314-19, 321;
and G. Bateson, 272-76;
and color, 74;
and Newton, 112-16;
soteriological, 98-99, 104, 113-14;
symbolism in, 68-75, 96-97;
and technology, 90, 95-96
Alcoholics Anonymous, 238-41, 243, 276, 292-93
Alcoholism, 7, 166, 292-93, 306, 334
Alembic, 76, 351
Alpha-thinking, 133-35, 323
Analogue knowledge, 216, 230-31, 249-54, 270, 341, 351
Animism, 58-59, 62-63, 83, 117, 138, 316, 351
Archaic tradition, 61-68, 271, 275, 351-52;
and schizophrenia, 123-25, 273.
See also Hermetic tradition
Archimedes, 50
Ariès, Philippe, 159-61, 330-31;
Centuries of Childhood, 159
Aristotelian logic, 15, 38, 137-38, 236, 308
Aristotelian physics, 25, 51-54
Aristotle, 13, 61-62
Astrology, 87, 94-95
Atomism, 21, 29-30, 34, 319, 352
Bacon, Francis, 14-18, 94, 96;
New Organon, 14, 15
Bacon, Roger, 37
Baconianism, 16-18
Balinese culture, 159, 209-11, 257, 330, 339
Balkanization, 281, 297
Ballistics, 50-52
Barfield, Owen, 128, 132-34, 139, 313;
Saving the Appearances, 128
Barrett, William, 156, 173;
Ego and Instinct, 156
Bateson, Gregory, 140-41, 187, 190-91, 195-96, 332, 336, 339, 345;
and aesthetics, 272-76;
and alchemy, 272-76;
and alcoholism, 238-41;
Balinese studies of, 209-11;
and cybernetic theory, 237-49, 256, 275;
Iatmul studies of, 197-209;
and learning theory, 211-22;
and schizophrenia, 220-33, 273;
See also Batesonian holism:
Double bind;
Incompleteness, principle of;
Learning I;
Learning II;
Learning III;
Metacommunication
works of:
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, 197;
Naven, 196;
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 187, 235.
Bateson, William, 191-96, 230, 248, 283-84, 356-37.
See also Meristic differentiation
Batesonian holism, 235-65, 273, 283-304;
and Cartesian world view, 236-37
Behavioral psychology, 163, 212-14, 215;
and schizophrenia, 273
Benedetti, Giovanni, 49
Benedict, Ruth, 200, 208
Berg, Peter, 298-99, 344
Biringuccio, Vannocio, 4,3, 95, 97, 318
Blake, William, 122-23, 147;
"Newton," 122
Bly, Robert, 147, 184-86, 302;
"I Came Out of the Mother Naked," 184-85
Boehme, Jacob, 73, 115
Brown, Norman O., 142, 166, 320
Cabala, 87, 90-94
Capital accumulation, 37-38, 44, 46, 104, 114-15
Capitalism, 46;
and ego development, 152-53
Cartesian logic, 18-24, 325, 335, 352;
and Freud, 167;
and Polanyi, 147-48;
and quantum mechanics, 137-38, 141;
and schizophrenia, 22-23, 34, 273.
See also Descartes, René
Cartesian physics, 102
Castaneda, Carlos, 84, 300, 316, 334
Character armor, 119-22, 168-70, 322, 331-32
Child development, 150-54, 158-64, 173-74, 329-31
Chromosome theory, 192-94, 337
Chromo-therapy, 183, 336
Circuitry, 194, 256-57, 258, 275, 352.
See also Cybernetics
Coding, 212, 352
Cognitive dissonance, 130
Color, 181-83, 335-36, 342;
and alchemy, 74;
and Edwin Land, 181-82;
and Newton, 32-33
Copernicus, Nikolaus, 43
Crafts, 42, 47, 77-78, 311;
and alchemy, 95
Croll, Oswald, 62-63
Cultism, 293-95, 347
Cybernetics, 194, 197, 238-48, 256-57, 275, 285-90, 344, 352
Dali, Salvador, 86, 185;
The Persistence of Memory, 89
Darwinian theory, 191, 197, 258, 337
Dasmann, Raymond, 298-99
De Occulta Philosophia,
See Agrippa von Nettesheim
De Re Metallica,
See Agricola, Georg
Dee, John, 94, 318
Della Porta, 62, 94
Delmedigo, Joseph Solomon, 93, 317
Descartes, René, 11, 14-15, 18-24, 71, 102, 307, 335;
works of:
Discourse on Method, 14, 18;
Meditations on First Philosophy, 19-20, 23;
Principles of Philosophy, 21, 102
Deutero-learning.
See Learning II
Developmentals, 157, 173-76, 352
Dialectical reason, 352
Digital knowledge, 216, 254, 270,352.
See also Analogue knowledge
Discourse on Method,
See Descartes, René
Diversity, ethics, of, 263-65
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 64, 313
Double bind, 220, 222-24, 226-50, 274
Dreams, 314, 339;
and Descartes, 23-24;
and Jung, 68-73, 148;
and Wilhelm Reich, 171
Drug use, 7-8, 166, 306, 344
Eckhart, Meister, 78
Ecology, 143, 189, 278-79, 289-90, 298-99, 348
Economy:
Commercial Revolution, 38, 42-44;
England,
17th century, 113;
feudal, 40-41; 47, 310;
planetary, 279;
Renaissance, 42-48.
See also Capital accumulation
Ego:
consciousness of, 155;
crystallization of, 151, 156-58, 164, 328;
development of, 151-58, 164, 174, 328;
knowledge of, 140;
psychology of, 328
Eidos, 201-2, 338, 353
Einsteinian physics, 136
Eliade, Mircea, 45, 78, 334
Elim (J.S. Delmedigo), 93, 317
Eliot, T. S., 74
Eluard, Paul, 147
English Civil War, 86, 113-14
English Restoration, 114-15
Enthusiasm, 113-15;
attack on, 122-23
Entropy.
See Second Law of Thermodynamics
Epimenides' Paradox, 217-18, 327
Escher, M.C.:
Three Worlds, 259
est, 293-94, 300;
Werner Erhard and, 293-94, 295
Ethos, 201-2, 338, 353
Fact-value distinction, 28, 187-88, 213-14, 233, 319
False-self system, 6, 22.
Fascism,
and the occult, 294-97, 347, 348
Feedback, 241-43, 247, 353
Ferenczi, Sŕndor, 128, 141, 175
Ficino, Marsilio, 94-95, 318
Figuration, 129-30, 132-34, 353
First Law of Thermodynamics, 263
Fludd, Robert, 91, 92-93, 101-2, 318, 319
Foucault, Michel, 64, 152, 174-75, 311, 313
Frankfurt School of Social Research, 305, 312
French Academy of Sciences, 103
Freud, Sigmund, 141-42, 150-52, 167, 256, 328
Galilei, Galileo, 24-29, 33, 48-55, 307;
New Science, 49;
Two New Sciences, 51, 311
Galileo (Brecht), 28
Gassendi, Pierre, 101-3
Genetics, 191, 192-93, 337
Gestalt, 54, 129-30, 353
Giorgio, Francesco, 90
Gnosticism, 58, 312
Gödel, Kurt, 145
Gravity, 25-27, 30-33, 143
Guilds, 42;
and alchemy, 95
Guruism, 291-93, 348
Haley, Jay, 221-22
Hanson, Norwood Russell, 129
Heisenberg, Werner, 137, 325
Helvetius, 81
Hermetic tradition, 61-67, 87, 99-103, 114, 116-17, 128, 189, 272, 316, 319;
and Newton, 108-10, 112;
and Protestantism, 103-5;
and schizophrenia, 124, 273
Hill, Christopher, 105, 113, 123, 276, 303;
The World Turned Upside Down, 276, 317, 320, 322
Holt, Luther Emmett, Sr., 162
Homeorhesis, 287
Homeostasis, 195, 256-58, 287-88, 353-34
Homeric tradition, 59-60, 312
Iatmul culture, 197-208, 338
Iconic communication, 249-51, 354
Iliad (Homer), 59
Immanence, 354
Incompleteness, principle of, 250-52, 256-57, 355
Individuation, 67-68, 258, 354
Industrial Revolution, 10, 34, 189
Inquisition, 100
Jaynes, Julian, 296, 302, 312, 348-49
Jimenez, Luis, Jr.,
The American Dream, 165
Judaism, 58-59, 312
Jung, Carl, 76-77, 256;
and dreams, 67-73, 148;
Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy, 73-74.
See also Shadow, Jungian concept of
Kant, Immanuel, 142, 295, 322
Keynes, John Maynard, 108
Kinesics, 251, 354
Kraepelin, E., 222-26
Kuhn, T. S., 177
Lacan, Jacques, 301
Laing, R.D., 5-7, 22, 75-76, 80-81, 124, 222-24, 231, 339, 340;
The Divided Self, 76, 124, 222-24;
The Politics of Experience, 75
Land, Edwin, 181-82
Langer, Susanne, 149, 179, 323
Language acquisition, 130, 156-57, 252-53, 288, 329-30
Lapis-Christ parallel, 98, 99, 354
Laplace, Pierre Simon de, 136-37
Learning I, 213, 354
Learning II, 213-15, 229-30, 261, 291, 354
Learning III, 214, 230, 261, 275-76, 288, 290-97, 300, 354
Learning process, 131-34;
in Bateson, 211-17;
in Polanyi, 175-77
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 185, 260, 264, 270
Liar's Paradox.
See Epimenides' Paradox
Madness,
See Schizophrenia
Magritte, René, 86, 317;
The Explanation, 88
Mahler, Margaret, 151, 153, 157
Maier, Michael, 74, 100
Mannheim, Karl, 145, 328
Mannheim's Paradox
See Epimenides' Paradox
Marcuse, Herbert, 3-4, 210, 305
Materialism, 57, 167, 307
Maxwell, James Clerk, 191, 194
Maxima, ethics of, 256, 263-64
McCulloch, Warren, 287
Mead, Margaret, 157, 164, 196;
See also Bateson, Gregory: Balinese studies of
Mechanism, 3, 102-5, 114- 17, 319;
and alchemy, 85-87;
and Descartes, 20-23;
and Freud, 167
Medieval world view, 38, 39
Meditations on First Philosophy
See Descartes, René
Merchant, Carolyn, 289, 319, 346
Meristic differentiation, 193, 346
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 155, 329
Mersenne, Marin, 101-3, 309, 319
Metacommunication, 218-20, 221-24, 227, 340, 345, 354
Metallurgy, 77-80, 95, 316, 318
Metamerism, 193-94, 354-55
Mimesis, 61, 131, 134, 167, 172-73, 335, 355
Mind
See Batesonian holism
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity
See Bateson, Gregory: works of
Mirandola, Pico della, 90
Modal personality, 168
Monotheism, 58-59
Montagu, Ashley, 159, 162, 164, 330
Montmor Academy, 103
Morphogenesis, 288
Natura vexata, 14, 17, 173, 290
Naven, 197-208, 338
Needham, Joseph, 138
Neumann, Erich, 150, 153, 166;
The Child, 328
New Organon
See Bacon, Francis
Newton, Isaac, 28-33, 86, 107-23, 169, 193, 316-17, 320;
and alchemy, 112-16;
and aura catena, 109;
and character armor, 119-22;
and enthusiasm, 115-17;
experiments on color of, 32-33;
and Hermetic tradition, 108-10, 112;
portraits of, 118-21;
works of:
Opticks, 32-33, 108;
Principia, 30, 107, 108, 110, 116, 308.
See also Physics: Newtonian
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 146, 264;
The Birth of Tragedy, 146
Nonverbal communication, 216-20, 335
Numerology, 90-93
Odyssey (Homer), 59
Opticks
See Newton, Isaac
Optima, ethics of, 256, 263
Original participation, 83-84
Ourobouros, 68, 74
Palmistry, 63
Parapsychology, 343
Parsons, Talcott, 133
Participant observation, 141-43
Pascal, Blaise, 40, 192
Pavlov, Ivan, 212-13
Perry, John, 81
Personal knowledge, 128, 175
Philosopher's stone, 67
Physics:
Aristotelian, 25, 51-54;
classical, 156;
Einsteinian, 136;
Newtonian, 31-33, 115-16;
quantum, 128, 136-41, 323-24
Piaget, Jean, 151, 307
Pirotechnia
See Biringuccio, Vannocio
Pirsig, Robert, 312
Planetary culture, 277-88, 298-302, 542
Plato, 13, 59-61, 284, 312, 327;
Timaeus, 13-14
Polanyi, Michael, 128-32, 138, 147-48, 175-77
Positivism, 32-33, 101, 102, 309
"prima materia" (also "materia prima"), 79, 355
Primary process, 150-52, 155, 167-72, 177, 219, 355
Primitive cultures, 135, 159, 164.
See also Balinese culture; Iatmul culture
Principia
See Newton, Isaac: works of
Principia Mathematica (Russell and Whitehead), 216
Principles of Philosophy,
See Descartes, René
Projectile motion, 51-54, 143
Protestantism, 97, 99-101, 104-5
Proto-learning.
See Learning I
Psychosis.
See Schizophrenia
Ptolemaic universe, 93;
according to Robert Fludd, 91
Puritanism, 104-5, 113-14, 116-18
Quantum mechanics, 128, 136-41, 323-24
Quarks, 325
Radial differentiation, 193, 205
Radical relativism, 55, 128, 143-45, 356
Rebel in the Soul, 302-3, 348
Reich Wilhelm, 141, 148-49, 164-65, 168-76, 256, 296;
and dreams, 171
Resemblance, theory of, 74, 124
Ricci, Ostilio, 49
Right and left brain cognition, 176.
See also Jaynes, Julian
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 120-21
Ripley, George, 98-99
Roman Catholic church, 64, 97-104
Rosicrucians, 74, 86, 100
Royal Society of London, 103, 114-15
Russell, Bertrand, 217, 286
Schismogenesis, 205-11,224-25, 242-43, 338-39
Schizophrenia, 5-7, 22, 76, 124-25, 220-31, 274-75, 345;
and archaic tradition, 123-25, 273;
and Batesonian holism, 273;
and Cartesian logic, 273
Scientific method, 16-20, 34, 37-40, 94-95, 134, 143-44
Scientific Revolution, 2, 10, 34, 37-40, 46-49, 73, 134, 152, 161, 177
Second Law of Thermodynamics, 137, 356
Shadow, Jungian concept of, 73, 76, 356
Skinner, B. F., 212
Sociology of knowledge, 55, 309
Socrates, 59-60;
Apology, 59
'Solve et coagula,' 75, 79, 356
Sprat, Thomas, 114-15
Steady state, 40, 280, 356
Steps to an Ecology of Mind,
See Bateson, Gregory: works of
Sullivan, Harry Stack, 130
Surrealism, 86, 185, 317
Symbolism, 14, 67-74, 82, 97, 314
Sympathy, 62, 124
Tacit knowing, 129-34, 138, 147, 177, 245, 256, 356
Tartaglia, Niccolň, 49, 50
Technology, 16, 43, 48-52, 125, 173, 189, 314, 344;
and alchemy, 90, 95-96
Theory of Logical Types, 217, 221, 225, 286, 356-57
Time, concepts of, 45-46, 310
Transcendance, 357
Trans-contextual, 231-32, 357
Transform, 245, 247, 357
Transmutation, 78-79, 81, 97-98
Transubstantiation, 99
Ubaldo, Guido, 49
Uncertainty principle, 137-38
Vortex atom, 194-95
Weber, Max, 27, 57, 104, 271
Whitehead, Alfred North, 127-28, 219-20, 296
Witchcraft trials, 84
Yankelovitch, Daniel, 156, 173, 329;
Ego and Instinct, 156
Yoga, 97, 188
Zen Buddhism, 97, 138, 188, 230
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Morris Berman received his B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University
and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Johns Hopkins. He has
taught at Rutgers University, the University of San Francisco, and
Concordia University (Montreal), and worked for several years as a
free-lance writer and editor. A lecturer and social critic, he is the
author of Social Change and Scientific Organization (1978) and The
Reenchantment of the World (1981). Dr. Berman has taught at Rutgers
University, University of San Francisco, Concordia University in Montreal,
and The University of Victoria in British Columbia. He lives in Seattle,
Washington, where he is at work on his next book.
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