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The Wisdom Page     

The Wisdom Page    

The Wisdom Page is a compilation of wisdom-related resources — various on-line texts concerning wisdom, references to books about wisdom, information about organizations that promote wisdom, wise activities, and listserv groups concerned with aspects of wisdom. 


Information about books by Copthorne Macdonald:

Matters of Consequence

Toward Wisdom

Getting a Life

Bridging the Strait

MATTERS OF CONSEQUENCE

TOWARD WISDOM

GETTING A LIFE

BRIDGING THE STRAIT


For those who prefer to hold a PHYSICAL BOOK in their hands, paper-and-ink editions of the three books at the left are available at modest cost from many online booksellers, and can be special-ordered through bookstores that deal with the U.S. book distributor Ingram. To comparison-shop the online sellers, click here.

All three works are also available for free download as screen-read-only Adobe Acrobat eBooks. For more information on this option, click here.


Full-text articles, essays, book reviews, and academic papers:

"Values, Wisdom, Action" An article in the World Wisdom Rising (Fall/Winter 2007) issue of the journal Kosmos: An integral Approach to Global Awakening. (Also available in PDF format.)

Nicholas Maxwell in Context A chapter that will appear in a forthcoming (Rodopi, 2008) book, a chapter that explores the relationship of Maxwell's wisdom theses to the contemporary global interest in wisdom.

"WISDOM: The Highest Aim of Life and Higher Education" — the text-plus-slides format of the “Thomas P. Johnson Distiguished Visiting Scholar” address given by Cop at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida on April 5, 2006. The talk is also available in a streaming media RealAudio-with-slides format.

"Playing the Wisdom Game" is an essay concerning the nature and development of wisdom. It can be read online now, and is included in the 2006 book Living a Life of Value.

"Deep Understanding: Wisdom for an Integral Age" 
An essay that first appeared in the inaugural issue of Integralis: Journal of Integral Consciousness, Culture, and Science, Vol. 1, No. 0 and was re-published in The Journal of Conscious Evolution, Volume 2.  

Review of Ken Wilber's book  A Theory of Everything
Integralis: Journal of Integral Consciousness, Culture, and Science
, Vol. 1, No. 0.

Review of Michael Lerner's book Spirit Matters
Integralis: Journal of Integral Consciousness, Culture, and Science, Vol. 1, No. 0.

"Preparing for 21st-Century Opportunities"
A Presentation to the 1998 P.E.I. Employment Summit Panel.

"Implications of a Fundamental Consciousness"
A paper presented at the Tucson III Toward a Science of Consciousness 1998 conference in Tucson, Arizona, 1 May 1998.

"An Energy/Awareness/Information Interpretation of Physical and Mental Reality"
A paper published in ZYGON: Journal of Religion and Science, June 1994.

"The Necessity for Developing Skill at Mind-Process Observation, and a Suggested Methodology"
A paper presented at the Tucson II Toward a Science of Consciousness 1996 conference in Tucson, Arizona.

"$mart EnergyUser"
Thirty-seven energy conservation newsletters on various topics prepared for the government of Prince Edward Island, Canada..


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About Cop Macdonald

Cop Macdonald's Publication List

Cop's Streaming Media Talks and Broadcast Appearances

Cop as Speaker or Panelist

Frances Copthorne and her music

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