Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Creativity, Consciousness, and the Integral Vision -- Chapter 1: The AQAL Framework -- Chapter 2: Improvisation-driven Growth of Creativity and Consciousness -- Chapter 3: Meditation-driven Growth of Creativity and Consciousness -- Chapter 4: Integral Evolutionary Dynamics -- Part II: Jazz: An Integral Reading -- Chapter 5: Jazz and the Academy -- Chapter 6: Invention: Improvisation and Composition as Contrasting Pathways to Transcendence -- Chapter 7: Interaction: A Systems View of the Improvisation Process -- Chapter 8: Individuation: An Integral View of Personal and Collective Style Evolution -- Chapter 9: Jazz: An Integral Reading -- Part III: Change -- Chapter 10: The Music School of the Future -- Chapter 11: Paradigmatic Change and the Twenty-first-century Academy -- Chapter 12: Planet Earth Takes a Solo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.