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THE FULLNESS
OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
by Dane Rudhyar, 1985




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CONTENTS


About the Author

1. Prelude and Basic Themes

2. Wholeness and the Experience of Periodic Change
• The dynamism of Wholeness
• The experience of time
• Living in the now
• Objective time, causality, and the measure of time

3. The Cyclic Structure of the Movement of Wholeness
• Abstract patterns and experienced symbols
• The meaning of symmetry
• Human free will and the process of readjustment

4. The Human Situation
• The Movement of Wholeness as a cyclic series of situations
• A holontological view of human experience

5. The Three Factors in Experience and Their Cyclic Transformation
• Subjectivity and desire
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• The expenditure and repotentializing of energy
• Mind: intermediary, interpreter and technician

6. The Formative and Separative Operations of Mind
• Mind and form
• Mind as an omnipresent formative factor
• The discursive and argumentative mind

7. A New Frame of Reference: The Earth-being and the Function of Humanity within It
• The development of frames of reference
• The planetary spheres
• The relation of culture to continent

8. Crises of Transition
• Life, culture and personhood
• From fetus to person: birth as initiation into personhood
• Potentiality and actuality
• The process of individualization
• The Path of Discipleship
• How to deal with changes of level

9. The "Dangerous Forties" in the Life-Cycle of Humanity
• The speed of change
• Crises of social and personal transformation
• The Hindu stages of life
• Service versus profit

EPILOGUE









ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Paris, Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was truly a Renaissance man, having gained distinction as a composer, pianist, poet, painter, and prolific author in the fields of astrology, philosophy, and psychology. His creative work was often considered ahead of its time, and his writings show an insight into the trends of the future.
      Rudhyar received the Peabody award for music in 1978, and his compositions have been performed in major concert halls. He held honorary doctorates from the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and John F. Kennedy University. He is recognized internationally as one of the leading figures in the field of transpersonal astrology and philosophy.
      Rudhyar is author of books too numerous to mention, including Astrology of Personality and The Planetarization of Consciousness. He authored five Quest books including Culture, Crisis, and Creativity and the book to which this one is a sequel, Rhythm of Wholeness.
      Galley proofs for The Fullness of Human Experience were finished before Rudhyar's death on September 13, 1985. In his final talk in March, celebrating his 90th birthday, he said: "The power that held my whole being as a lens to bring ideas to a focus will be released when I go. Perhaps when the person I appear to be is gone, it may be easier to tune up to that mind-power and what is beyond it — the wholeness of spirit, the freed seed."






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