PARADIGMS OF THE SOUL by Paul MacNaughton

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Prologue: How We Become That For Which We Are Searching

This is a short biography relating how I came to the ideas of the paradigms, with how the personal calling can lead us through different, transformative experiences.

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Introduction

Quotes from different authors, philosophers, and sages are used to show how, through the ages, the ideas surrounding the paradigm system have displayed themselves in the work of others. (Plato to James Hillman)

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Chapter 1: The Life Calling

Do we have a daemon (DYE-mon), as Plato suggests, which is ourselves, which leads us through life according to a purpose -- a purpose which we can discover, and whose plan we can know, follow, or reject?

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Chapters Two through Twelve will be posted on request from the readership.

Chapter 2: The Server

How the life of service to humanity is based on soul-level structures: Mother Teresa, Gorbachev, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jerry Brown, Cesar Chavez, Sally Field, The Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup), Sigourney Weaver, Camille Saint-Saens.

Chapter 3: The Artisan

The paradigm system as supporting the "creative" life: Debussy, Madonna, Graham Greene, Meryl Streep, Robin Williams, Paul McCartney, Bill Cosby, Arnold Swartzenegger, Joe Montana, Ringo Starr, Marilyn Monroe, Adolph Hitler

Chapter 4: The Warrior

The paradigm supporting the establishment of the ego, the defense of "personal space", and the willingness to confront: Jackie Kennedy, Ross Perot, Princess Diana, Edgar Martinez, Jr., Candice Bergen, Nancy Reagan, Bill Gates, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert DuVall.

Chapter 5: The Scholar

The soul-level paradigm supporting the life of understanding, assimilation, and integration: Leonardo, Lincoln, Winton Marsalis, Hillary Clinton, F.D.R., Gertrude Stein, Carl Sagan, Beethoven, Ken Griffey Jr., Jessica Lange, Billy Graham, Glenn Close, Jerry Seinfeld, John Lennon, Anwar Sadat.

Chapter 6: The Sage

The paradigm supporting the expression of the ego and its possibilities: Shirley MacClaine, Puccini, Ronald Reagan, William Shatner, Lucille Ball, Jack Nicholson, Michael Jackson, Mozart, Goldie Hawn, Jessie Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Josef Stalin, Picasso

Chapter 7: The Priest

The paradigm supporting the expression of Divine Order (Acceptance) and transformation: Jimmy Carter, Bill Murray, Doris Day, Gandhi, George Bush, Jody Foster, George Harrison, Mary Tyler Moore, Tom Cruise, Jose Canseco, Van Gogh, Wagner, Sidney Poitier, Plato

Chapter 8: The King

The paradigm of mastery, inculcation, and natural leadership: Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Katherine Hepburn, Arsenio Hall, Sophia Loren, Dan Rather, Geraldine Ferraro, Katerina Witt, Larry King, Billy Joel

Chapter 9: How the Paradigms Interweave and Work With Each Other

Chapter 10: Personal Transformative Work Through an Understanding of the Paradigms

Chapter 11: Implications For Psychology

Chapter 12: Transpersonal Implications

Charts and Graphs

Acknowledgments

References

Index