The Enlightened Society

analytic philosophy atman attempt awareness basic become behavior believe brain process causal century Chapter characteristic concept culture Descartes drug dualism effects emergent enlightened society enlightenment epiphenomenalism everyday evolution evolutionary example existence existential experience external feeling Franklin Merrell-Wolff Franz Brentano function fundamental Further goal Haver human identifies identity important individual integration level of need lifestyle living Maslow material materialist meaning meditation ment mental metaphysical mind mind-body problem modern moral motivation mystical nature Newton Maloney nirvana notion object occur oneself orientation pattern perhaps perience personality philosophy physical Plotinus possible problem progress psycho psycho-spiritual development psycho-spiritual need psychoanalysis psychological pure consciousness questions realization realm reductionism reductionistic relationship religion religious result satisfaction seems self-actualization self-development self-identification sense significant similar simply social soul Spinoza spiritual theory things thought tion traditional transcendent twentieth-century types ultimate unconscious various W. T. Stace Western yoga