A Fool's Phenomenology Archetypes of

This suggestive work develops a theory of spiritual growth based upon unique archetypal schema. The psychological aspects are undergirded by a comprehensive metaphysics and cosmology.

Stephen Tyman s an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Apology	1	(8)
That we do not seek the spirit	9	(5)
That we nevertheless do seek the spirit	14	(6)
What it means to seek the spirit	20	(3)
What it means not to seek the spirit	23	(4)
That the drifting mind tends to the inertia of neutrality	27	(3)
That skepticism is a means of maintaining this neutrality	30	(2)
That skepticism is a living violation of its own neutrality	32	(2)
That the Enlightenment has appropriated skepticism to itself	34	(3)
That the Enlightenment dwells in an irremedial ambivalence	37	(3)
That ambivalence only apparently equates to neutrality	40	(4)
That the Enlightenment still dreams of mind unveiled	44	(9)
That mind is, however, veiled	53	(7)
That the veil is permeable	60	(5)
That will is the key to the permeability of the veil	65	(3)
That will directs itself in the element of faith	68	(4)
That will is the significant subject of evolution	72	(6)
That faith can be a false friend	78	(3)
That life without faith is spirit bereft of spirit	81	(4)
That discrimination cannot however be abandoned in faith	85	(4)
That judgment properly culminates in choice	89	(4)
That choice involves polarity	93	(5)
That polarity is the means by which the self gathers and builds itself	98	(3)
That polarity involves the affective life	101	(6)
That polarity is a dangerous enterprise	107	(9)
That the mind even in faith does not abandon its yen for power	116	(3)
That power is magnetically held or radiated in free dissemination	119	(4)
That the manner of empowerment is the choice of choices	123	(2)
That the way to genuine enlightenment is balance within choice	125	(3)
That archetypal work is the secret to growth in polarized balance	128	(3)
That contemplation of catalyst can be an ingress into archetypes	131	(6)
That the mind, body and spirit form a multi-dimensional complex	137	(3)
That complexity lies at the root of the veil of consciousness	140	(5)
That the ontological correlate of this root is potentiated freedom	145	(3)
That freedom is ontologically the first deviation from perfect unity	148	(6)
That free multiplicity is the infinite spawn of the infinite	154	(3)
That chaos gathers itself into structure through seeking	157	(3)
That seeking conforms to a template which is also a question	160	(4)
That the fruit of the creation grows the Creator, a protean entity	164	(2)
That the scattered pass into the One Mind as they are healed	166	(3)
That to be healed absolutely means to be absolved of particularity	169	(2)
That loss of particularity is not loss of being	171	(5)
That I am the wound and sorrow of the Creator	176	(3)
That only the Creator can amend my wound and sorrow	179	(3)
That I am the glory and triumph of the Creator	182	(3)
That only the Creator can countenance Its glory and triumph	185	(2)
That the way of the creature is a long and winding path	187	(3)
Index	190

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