Table of Contents
SECTION 1: STATUS & LEISURE
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ix
Chapter One: Work, Status & Time . . . . . . . . 15
What’s Your Status? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Of Income and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter Two: Retirement, Investing & Taming Status . . 35
There Was a Time Not Long Ago . . . . . . . . ., . 35
Preparing for Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Investing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... . . 45
Taming Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . 50
Chapter Three: Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 55
The End Game in Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Leisure in Practical Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Leisure Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......... . 63
Chapter Four: Transcendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 2: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING
Chapter Five: The Dawn of Philosophy . . . . . . . 75
Ancient Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .,,,, . . 77
Chapter Six: Rediscovering Philosophy . . . . . . . 85
The Great Schism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . 85
Life Returns Slowly to Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Chapter Seven: Philosophy Matures . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Great German Philosophers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Transcendentalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . 113
Chapter Eight: Better Consciousness . . . . . . . . . 123
Meditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............ . 124
Peak Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . 125
Chapter Nine: Back to Real Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
On the Path to Transcendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
The Axial Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........... . . . . 144
Making It All Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ . .. . 154
APPENDIX: EXISTENTIALISM . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 177
