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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:

"Implications of a Fundamental Consciousness" A paper published in the refereed journal Activitas Nervosa Superior: The Journal for Neurocognitive Research, July 2010.

"The Necessity for Developing Skill at Mind-Process Observation, and a Suggested Methodology"
A paper published in the refereed journal Activitas Nervosa Superior: The Journal for Neurocognitive Research, December 2010

"The Centrality of Wisdom" is an essay in the 2010 book How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth.

"Nicholas Maxwell in Context: The Relationship of His Wisdom Theses to the Contemporary Global Interest in Wisdom". A chapter in the 2009 book Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Thought of Nicholas Maxwell.

"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.)

"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 video 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.

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

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

"A Slow-Scan T.V. System for Image Transmission"
A 1958 article in The Kentucky Engineer presenting the paper that won national first prize in the 1958 AIEE student paper competition. (An Acrobat PDF file.)


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