Ego- Gate - October 3, 2011
I just finished listening to Peter Bauman’s Ego: The Fall of the Twin Towers and the Rise of an Enlightened Humanity, in which he posits that the WTC destruction and subsequent killing of Bin Laden signals the transition from the conceptual, ego dominant mode of human developmental functioning (personal) to the coming mode of post-personal, which is characterized by increasing dominance of collaborative, creative, memes that finally move us in the direction of Einstein’s notion of humans as “part of the whole” rather than largely isolated and self-focused.
He does an excellent job of using straight forward language and minimal developmental jargon which makes the book accessible, riveting, and hopeful. In fact I found it to be “piffy” (inspiring a couple of small epiphanies). Drawing from neuroscience, developmental psychology, anthropology, Big History, and with an evolutionary Wilber flavor, he is far more engaging and less pedantic.
I hope this book is read by a large audience if others find it as meaningful and mainstream as I do.
He does an excellent job of using straight forward language and minimal developmental jargon which makes the book accessible, riveting, and hopeful. In fact I found it to be “piffy” (inspiring a couple of small epiphanies). Drawing from neuroscience, developmental psychology, anthropology, Big History, and with an evolutionary Wilber flavor, he is far more engaging and less pedantic.
I hope this book is read by a large audience if others find it as meaningful and mainstream as I do.
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