THE HUMAN AGENDA: HOW TO BE AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE --- WITHOUT MAGIC
by Roderic Gorney. The Guild of Tutors Press, 1968, 1972, 1979
    FORWARD (p5)

    PREFACE (p6)

    PROLOGUE (p7-13)

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (p15-16)

    SECTION 1 --- EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES (p23-312

      PART 1 --- Man in evolution/evolution in man (p21-193)

        1) Universe and God (p23-30)

        2) Earth and life (p31-59)

        3) Animal and man (p60-122)

        4) Adaptation and the human agenda (p123-195)

      PART 2 --- The new biology and the future of man (p196-312)

        Introduction (p197)

        Prospects for control of:

        5) Gestation (p198-208)

        6) Genetics (p209-232)

        7) Life and death (p232-250)

        8) Brain (p251-274)

        9) Mind (p275-312)

          [1] Background (p275-276)

          [2] Demands of daily reality

            (1) Things, consciousness, habit (p276-277)

            (2) Disturbed work, love, play --- consumption, sex, novelty (p277-287)

            (3) Meaning of things (p287-289)

          [3] Demands of our own urges (p289-311)

            (1) Consciousness, wishes, uncertainty (p289-291)

            (2) Rationality, education, human potential (p291-296)

            (3) Neurosis, personality, sexuality (p296-298)

            (4) Pseudo-certainty and pseudo-liberty (p298-303)

            (5) Consciousness and community (p303-307)

            (6) Conditioning (p307-309)

            (7) Sex and violence (p309-311)

          [4] Demands of evolution (p311-312)

    SECTION 2 --- LOVE, WORK, AND PLAY REVISITED (p313-415)

      Introduction (p315-317)

        10) Social and psychological functions of love, work, and play (p318-320)

        11) Origins and development of love, work, and play (p321-3433)

        12) The eras of scarcity and abundance (p344-353)

        13) Values, technology, self-validation (p354-395)

        14) Self-validation love, work, and play in the future of abundance (p396-403)

        15) Psychic intimacy as observed in psychoanalysis (p404-407)

        16) Psychic impostor ethic (p408-412)

        Summing up (p413-420)

    SECTION 3 --- MASTERY OF THE FUTURE (p-417-552)

      PART 1 --- Ways to go (p419-425)

        Introduction

        17) Getting ahead (p421-425)

        18) Fun fervor (p426-428)

        19) Creative frenzy (p429-437)

        20) Mystic withdrawal (p450-459)

        21) Technique infatuation (p460-471)

        22) Big and little brother protection (p472-496)

        23) Prospectancy (p497-506)

      PART 2 --- The quest for blondness --- an example explored (p507-554)

        Introduction (p511-513)

        24) Blondness --- first views (p511-513)

        25) The blond image and light versus dark (p514-519)

        26) Pathology (p528-532)

        27) Blondness --- further views (p532-546)

        28) Image and sex object selection (p547-550)

        29) Blondness and decision (p550-554)

    SECTION 4 --- CONCLUSIONS (p555-568)

    EPILOGUE (p569-572)

    PRECIS (p573-576)

    NOTES (p577-604)

    BIBLIOGRAPHY (p605-628)

    EXPANDED CONTENTS (p629-636)

    INDEX (p637-698)

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR (p699)

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