God's Autopsy and the Living Truth of Soul
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God's Autopsy and the Living Truth of Soul

A History of Western Consciousness

  1. 410 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

God's Autopsy and the Living Truth of Soul

A History of Western Consciousness

About this book

The Grand Narrative of Christianity that the Bible created is dead, and the Bible is silent. Does the Bible have anything relevant to say to our modern circumstances? We ask, where did God come from? What happened to God? God's Autopsy reinterprets soul and God as historical-psychological phenomena related to the cultural structure of consciousness, the invisible shared context of thought, which has changed dramatically over the past three millennia. This book offers a new way to understand the trajectory of Western civilization by making the implicit foundation of Western consciousness--soul--visible and conscious. Our modern Western consciousness is radically different from that of antiquity when the Bible emerged. Jung's psychological-philosophical insight that whenever we speak about the psyche it is the psyche speaking about itself, leads to the realization that today consciousness has come home to itself. Beginning with preliterate polytheism, the emergence of the transcendent god Yahweh and Christ, which led directly to the Enlightenment, objective soul continues to unfold itself. How did late modernity become a topsy-turvy, quantum, virtual, digital, impersonal, and abstract world that appears to be running away from us? The answer is unexpectedly and shockingly in the Bible itself.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Fundamental Concepts
  4. Chapter 1: Is There a Modern Soul?
  5. Chapter 2: Bible as Soul’s Dream of Itself
  6. Chapter 3: Abram: Archaic Soul Leaves Home
  7. Chapter 4: Yahweh’s Violent Rupture: Soul’s Revolution
  8. Chapter 5: Yahweh Defeats Himself to Save Himself
  9. Chapter 6: Job: A Crack in the Armor
  10. Chapter 7: Yahweh Kills Himself, Christ Sublates the Flesh
  11. Chapter 8: Reason: The Sublation of Christ (Death of God)
  12. Chapter 9: Soul’s Thought of Itself Today Is Consciousness
  13. Afterword: White Supremacy Is Christian Supremacy
  14. Recommendations for Further Reading
  15. Bibliography