Books : Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man (Provenance Editions)
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by: Gerald Heard
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4
EAN: 9780974935911
ISBN: 0974935913
Label: Monkfish Book Publishing
Manufacturer: Monkfish Book Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: December 15, 2004
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Sales Rank: 935177
Studio: Monkfish Book Publishing
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Product Description:
Pain, Sex and Time explores evolution and postulates the possibility and means of a future evolution of the mind. First published in 1939, its philosophy converted a generation of leading thinkers from the scientific worldview to the perspective of the mystics.
Gerald Heard (1889-1971) was a well-known British polymath and science commentator for the BBC. He later toured and lectured prolifically in the United States. Heard wrote thirty-eight books including The Ascent of Humanity, The Social Substance of Religion and A Taste for Honey, a detective story which sold over half a million copies. Referring to Heard's influence on Western notables, Ellery Queen wrote, 'Gerald Heard is the spiritual godfather of this Western movement.'
Aldous Huxley (from his 1939 review of Pain, Sex and Time): 'Gerald Heard's book represents a significant attempt to reinterpret in contemporary terms and in the light of modern knowledge the teachings, practical no less than theoretical, of the traditional religious philosophies...'
Professor Huston Smith, (from his 2004 Foreword to
Pain, Sex and Time
): 'Overnight, the book in hand converted me from the scientific worldview to the vaster world of the mystics. I applaud the decision to bring this book back into print.'
In this absorbing and provocative book, Gerald Heard shows that a fissure in human consciousness, which has been rapidly widening for 400 years, is the cause of modern man's tragic dismay. Believing his problem external, when it is really in his own mind, man at last faces a 'veritable Copernican revolution' psychologically. Science tells us that man is the only animal capable of continued evolution. It shows further that he can evolve in only one way-mentally. Pain, Sex and Time is then a new outlook, a new promise for the future, a new exploration of those strange and little-known powers of human consciousness of which man is becoming increasingly aware. Harper & Brothers, 1939
Pain, Sex and Time was James Dean's favorite book.
Pain, Sex and Time has been out of print for 60 years.
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Rating:  - PAIN, SEX AND TIME
"History may be interpreted as the symptoms of a mental evolution," writes Gerald Heard in PAIN, SEX AND TIME. "Man's civilization is the shadow cast by his evolving consciousness." The evolution of his psyche is the sequel to the evolution of his physique. This mutation in his psyche, in consciousness, is a spiral of ascent, of continuing evolution. He must leap forward or sink.
"In man is a store of evolutionary energy and that energy can give rise to his further, purely psychical ... Read More
Rating:  - Outdated but Remarkable for Its Time
I would actually give this book 3.5 stars. The only reason I'm not giving it more stars is that the concepts regarding the evolution of the spiritual man, though still retaining some validity, seem somehow outmoded. In addition, the writing style is a bit anachronistic. However the author was remarkable for his time (which was not all that long ago) and he is still very much worth reading. He was an underrated, somewhat eclectic philosopher who was courageous enough to question the scientism ... Read More
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