FOREWORD by Lynn E. Rose
PROLOGUE: The Good Earth
Chapter I: OF RACIAL MEMORY
An Amnesia Victim
Mind's Frontiers
Collective Unconscious Mind
Jung's Archetypes
Freud's Descent into Hades
Of Racial Memory
Mankind's Delusion
The Archaic Trauma
Chapter II: TO KNOW AND NOT TO KNOW
A Reconstruction of Events
To Know and Not to Know
Isaiah
Early Attempts at Rationalizing
Plato
Aristotle and Amnesia (by Lynn E. Rose)
The Roman Philosophers
The Rise of Aristotelianism
Copernicus
Galileo and Giordano
Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger
Laplace's Dichotomy
Darwin
Natural Evolution and Revolution
Karl Marx's Misapprehension
Two Forms of Fear
A Choice
"A Degradation of Science and of Religion"
A Firmament
Chapter III: IN FEAR AND TREMBLING
Planet Cods
The Feast of Light
First Century: Visions of Apocalypse
The Seventh Century and the Dark Ages
Mid-Fourteenth Century: A Periodicity of Frenzy
"There's No Hiding Place Down There"
Chapter IV: POETS AND VISIONARIES
Shakespeare, Three Generations After Copernicus
The Shadow of Death
Nevermore
Mind at the End of Its Tether
Chapter V: THE AGE OF TERROR
"Why War?"
The Recurrent Scourge
The Chosen People of Hiroshima
Of the Roots of Anti-Semitism
The Slave Traders and the Slaves
Explosion of Population
Armageddon on the Drawing Boards
Chapter VI: DREAMS AND HALLUCINATIONS
To Open a Door
Bedlam's Basement
Planets in Dreams and Anxiety
Tornado
Chapter VII: A CHRONICLE OF OUR TIME
Mnemes Awakened
Late 1960s Student Unrest
Dismayed and Confounded
Man Landing on the Moon
Pages from a Newspaper
The Fire Gate
The Three Giants
Guyana Mass Suicide
Living by the Bomb
EPILOGUE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX