Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness: 1 (Nuralogicals)

Seeing Through the World introduces the reader to the work of German-Swiss philosopher poet and intellectual mystic Jean Gebser (1905-1973). Writing in the midcentury during a period of intense cultural transformation and crisis in Europe Gebser intuited a series of mutational leaps in the history of human consciousness the latest of which emerging was the integral structure marked by the presence of time-freedom. Gebsers insights on the phenomenology of human consciousness has brought profound intellectual depth and spiritual transmission to the field of integral philosophy and consciousness studies influencing the works of American historians such as William Irwin Thompson and the philosopher Ken Wilber. Further syncretic corroboration links Gebsers integral age to those of the Indian revolutionary and yogi Sri Aurobindos integral yoga and Pierre Teilhard de Chardins evolutionary mysticism.Arguably Gebsers structures of consciousness are as significant an ontological insight as C. G. Jungs reality of the psyche. Yet until now very little secondary literature has been available in the English-speaking world. Jeremy Johnson the current president of the International Jean Gebser Society who has spent the last decade as an integral scholar and researcher produces this introductory volume on the life and writings of Jean Gebser. Part companion piece to Gebsers magnum opus The Ever-Present Origin part inspired treatise on an integral futurism Jeremy guides the reader through the structures of consciousness and incepts integral scholarship as a divination that scries the age of ecological collapse and the ontological recodings of the Anthropocene.It is the first volume in the NuraLogicals series produced in partnership with Nura Learning.