The Coming Era of Time-Free Transparency

In his book The Ever-Present Origin, Jean Gebser describes the new era of consciousness into which we are moving as we move from the era of rational consciousness into the an era of time-free transparency. This article describes in greater detail the meaning and nature of consciousness that is time-free and transparent. Both of these features are most apparent in night-time dreams and other altered states of consciousness, features that were and are available to the shamans of both ancient and contemporary hunting-gathering cultures. A direct way of experiencing these features of this new consciousness is through the altered state of ecstatic trance as researched by the anthropologist Felicitas Goodman as described in her book Where the Spirits Ride the Wind. The induction of this altered state of consciousness is then described.

Las mutaciones de la conciencia de Jean Gebser: una revisión crítica desde la evolución biológica y cultural

En este artículo desarrollamos una serie de apreciaciones y consideraciones acerca de las ideas de Gebser sobra las estructuras de la conciencia. Para explicar su aparición él utilizó el símil de las “mutaciones”. Los nuevos conocimientos en la Evolución biológica sirven para potenciar y revalorizar sus ideas. En el ser humano a partir de esta Evolución biológica surge la evolución cultural, y ambas son fundamentales para el desarrollo de la conciencia. Evolución significa cambio en el tiempo y este último concepto es crucial para Gebser. Pensamos que el dominio del tiempo caracterizará la nueva estructura integral de la conciencia humanahttp://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ag.35.2.2823

Musikgeschichte als heilige Geschichte - ein Versuch, die Entwicklung neu zu verstehen

The attempt to explain developments in music history, not as movement of material (Adorno) but as the unfolding of man’s potentials, has its origin in the image and theory of man as offered by the evolution of consciousness (Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber and others). Since 1600 there has been a development of “spiritual signatures’”; the article gives a survey of its chances and dangers from the Baroque era up to Postmodernism.