Alvin Toffler

Biography

Alvin Toffler (October 3, 1928 - p.) American futurist, former editor of Fortune Magazine. In 1996, he and his wife Heidi, who allegedly co-authored his books, founded Toffler Associates, "an executive advisory firm committed to helping commercial firms and government agencies adjust to the changes described in the Tofflers' works." (Wikipedia)

Selected Works

• The Culture Consumers (19??)
• The Schoolhouse in the City (19??)
  
• Future Shock (1970)
• The Eco-Spasm Report (1975)
• The Third Wave (1980)
• Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (1985)
• War and Anti-War (1995)
• Revolutionary Wealth (2006)
  

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Quotes

Whether we examine distances traveled, altitudes reached, minerals mined, or explosive power harnessed, the same accelerative trend is obvious. The pattern, here and in a thousand other statistical series, is absolutely clear and unmistakable. Millennia or centuries go by, and then, in our own times, a sudden bursting of the limits, a fantastic spurt forward. - Future Shock

Older people are even more likely to react strongly against any further acceleration of change. There is a solid mathematical basis for the observation that age often correlates with conservatism: time passes more swiftly for the old. -Future Shock

Carl Gustav Jung

Biography

Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 - June 6, 1961)

Selected Works

• Psychology of the Unconscious (1912)
• Psychological Types (1921)
• The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga (1932)
• Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
• Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1934 - 1954)
• Psychology and Religion (1938)
• Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
• Mysterium Coniunctionis (1956)
• The Development of Personality (1967)
• Four Archetypes: Mother, Spirit, Rebirth, Trickster (1970)
• Dreams (1974)
• Psychology and the East (1986)
• Psychology and Western Religion (1988)
• Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra (1998)
  

Quotes

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to a better understanding of ourselves.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Links

• Wikipedia Entry
• The Jung Page
• The Jung Center
  

Alan W. Watts

Biography

Alan Watts (January 16, 1915 - November 16, 1963)-- British thinker who helped make Eastern religion easily digestable for the Western mind. Highly prolific, Watts wrote books about Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Vedanta, psychology, comparative religion, and spirituality.


Selected Works

• The Spirit of Zen (1936)
  
• The Supreme Identity (1950)
• The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
• The Way of Zen (1957)
• Nature, Man and Woman (1958)
• "This Is It" and Other Essays (1960)
• Psychotherapy East and West (1961)
• The Joyous Cosmology (1962)
• Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship (1964)
• The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
• Nonsense (1967)
• Does It Matter? Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality (1970)
• Erotic Spirituality (1971)
• The Art of Contemplation (1972)
• In My Own Way - An Autobiography (1972)
• Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal

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