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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Threshold Theory and the God of Love
A Note to the Reader
Introduction: Threshold Theory for Transformative Learning
Part I. Portal to the Possible: The Role of Primordial Will and Creative Chaos in Threshold Theory
Chapter 1. Into the Threshold of Majesty: Befriending the Foe
Chapter 2. Primordial Will: Toward a Political and Theological Understanding of the Mothers
Chapter 3. The Ecosystem “Spins a Bigger Story”
Part II. Preparing for Transformative Learning: Ancient and Contemporary Approaches to Threshold Realities
Chapter 4. “Eunuchs Swirl Colored Skirts”: Arriving at the Intersection of the Mundane and Numinous
Chapter 5. Steady, Resilient, and Smooth Mind: Transcultural Understandings of Emptiness and Mental Health
Part III. Troublesome or Transformative?: Engaging with Creative Moral Power, Affectivity, and Shadow Content in Threshold Realities
Chapter 6. When Locusts Sing, the Corn Ripens
Chapter 7. Bringing Steel to Light: The Hidden Strength of “Transcultural, Particularized Universals”
Chapter 8. The Emergence of the Ethical Subject: Navigating Troublesome and Transformative Aspects of Affect
Part IV. Opening to the Cosmic and Continuous: Creative Participation and the Majesty of Eros in Threshold Transformation
Chapter 9. Restoring the Cosmic Dimensions of Eros to Life Drive Theory
Chapter 10. Threshold Transformations, Leaps, and Reversals: How the Participatory Turn Contributes to the Political Community
Chapter 11. Value Transformations in the Threshold Between Inner and Outer Worlds
Part V. Threshold Comprehensions and Communications: The Spirit of Friendship, Democracy, and Finding in Threshold Confidence
Chapter 12. Existing as Finding: The Humorist Approach
Chapter 13. The Spirit of Friendship
Chapter 14. The Gates of Comprehension
Appendix A. What Are the Implications for Anthroposophy of Rudolph Steiner’s Racial Presuppositions?
Appendix B
References
Index
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