Jean Gebser's work provides the most coherent story that I have read regarding how it is we have come to this point in human history. The subtleties of Gebser are often lost in contemporary considerations like that of Ken Wilber and other Integral theorists.
An Overview of the Work of Jean Gebser
Sri Aurobindo for Gebserians - by Mohroff Ulrich
Feuerstein on Gebser: Towards a New Consciousness
The Invisible Origin: Evolution as a Supplementary Process - by Jean Gebser
Whitehead provides us with the metaphysics... he moves us away from Aristotelian substance based logic and Newtonian physics... his deep penetration into the function or process of reality gives us a language whereby we can approach the edges of quantum theory and modern science, while also including the voices of our indigenous past, and our deep common sense knowing... A good place to start would be the two books seen here.
Adventures of Ideas
by Alfred North Whitehead
Dorothy Emmet's Notes on Whitehead's Harvard Lectures, 1928 - 1929
Cassirer can act as a bridge between Gebser and Whitehead. Much like Whitehead, Cassirer developed a logic based on process rather than substance. He also found himself with a professorship at t
he University of Hamburg in 1919 which was founded by Aby Warburg... Warburg collected an incredible amount of material relating to ancient cult, magic, mythic, and ritual... Cassirer's study of this material leads him to create a bridge towards Gebser who was an art historian...
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