The Ways and Power of Love : Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

Preface xi Introduction xv Stephen G. Post PART ONE LOVE: ITS ASPECTS, DIMENSIONS, PRODUCTION, TRANSFORMATION, AND POWER The Manifoldness of Love and Its Main Aspects 3(12) The Five-Dimensional Universe of Psychosocial Love 15(21) Tentative Considerations on Production, Accumulation, and Distribution of Love Energy 36(11) Power of Creative Love 47(36) PART TWO STRUCTURE OF CREATIVE PERSONALITY Mental Structure and Energies of Man 83(15) The Supraconscious in Man's Mental Structure, Creativity, and Cognition 98(17) Forms and Ways of Personality Integration and Creativity 115(10) PART THREE THE WAYS OF ALTRUISTIC GROWTH Supreme Love and the Supraconscious 125(19) Three Types of Altruists and Three Courses of Altruistic Growth 144(31) Ideological and Behavioral Altruistic Self-Identification 175(9) Factors in the Early Integration of the Fortunate Altruits 184(22) Inner Conflicts and Precipitating Factors of the Late Altruists 206(26) Types of Altruistic Rearrangement of Group Affiliations and Environment 232(23) Trials and Pains of Reintegration of Behavior 255(18) Types of Control of Biological Drives 273(14) PART FOUR TECHNIQUES OF ALTRUISTIC TRANSFORMATION OF PERSONS AND GROUPS The Ego-Centered and the Ego-Transcending Forms of Love and Techniques 287(22) The Techniques of Altruistic Transformation (continued) 309(23) The Techniques of Altruistic Transformation (concluded) 332(24) The Unified Techniques of Patanjali's and Other Yogas 356(21) The Monastic System of Techniques 377(32) Monastic ''Psychoanalysis,`` Counseling, and Therapy 409(32) Techniques of Contemporary Free Brotherhoods 441(18) PART FIVE TRAGEDY AND TRANSCENDENCE OF TRIBAL ALTRUISM From Tribal Egoism to Universal Altruism 459(32) Notes 491(46) Index of Names 537(10) Index of Subjects 547