This volume follows up Volume 1 of Old and New Evidence on the
Meaning of Life - 'An Introduction to Scientific Mysticism' (see back
cover for details) - with a comprehensive study of individual
character-development at all levels from the most mentally disordered to
the most spiritually illuminated and fulfilling, always on a basis of
first-hand experience. The evidence is by no means limited to this world
observations and behaviour, but extends to states of consciousness in
which personality-structure and non-physical beings in non-physical
'worlds' are known with high rating in a Scale of Reality.
Attention
is given especially to 'ultimate' and 'near-ultimate' contests and
habitual practices, leading eventually to the mystical transformation. The
explanatory system presented involves, in particular, the fourfold
'creative' or 'learning' cycle (extended to sixteen on occasion) and the
mystical view of personality structure (individual in charge, and
contributory minds). These and other principles throw a flood of light on
problems of psychological and mystical development, including those of
sexuality at all levels up to that of the unitive life at supra-physical
levels.
