The Flowering of Human Consciousness | p. 1 |
Evocation | p. 1 |
The Purpose of This Book | p. 5 |
Our Inherited Dysfunction | p. 8 |
The Arising New Consciousness | p. 13 |
Spirituality and Religion | p. 17 |
The Urgency of Transformation | p. 20 |
A New Heaven and a New Earth | p. 23 |
Ego: The Current State of Humanity | p. 25 |
The Illusory Self | p. 27 |
The Voice in the Head | p. 30 |
Content and Structure of the Ego | p. 34 |
Identification with Things | p. 35 |
The Lost Ring | p. 38 |
The Illusion of Ownership | p. 42 |
Wanting: The Need for More | p. 46 |
Identification with the Body | p. 49 |
Feeling the Inner Body | p. 52 |
Forgetfulness of Being | p. 53 |
From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight | p. 54 |
The Peace That Passes All Understanding | p. 56 |
The Core of Ego | p. 59 |
Complaining and Resentment | p. 61 |
Reactivity and Grievances | p. 64 |
Being Right, Making Wrong | p. 66 |
In Defense of an Illusion | p. 67 |
Truth: Relative or Absolute? | p. 69 |
The Ego Is Not Personal | p. 72 |
War Is a Mind-set | p. 74 |
Do You Want Peace or Drama? | p. 77 |
Beyond Ego: Your True Identity | p. 77 |
All Structures Are Unstable | p. 79 |
The Ego's Need to Feel Superior | p. 81 |
Ego and Fame | p. 82 |
Role-playing: The Many Faces of the Ego | p. 85 |
Villain, Victim, Lover | p. 87 |
Letting Go of Self-Definitions | p. 89 |
Pre-established Roles | p. 90 |
Temporary Roles | p. 93 |
The Monk with Sweaty Palms | p. 94 |
Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness | p. 95 |
Parenthood: Role or Function? | p. 97 |
Conscious Suffering | p. 101 |
Conscious Parenting | p. 103 |
Recognizing Your Child | p. 104 |
Giving Up Role-playing | p. 106 |
The Pathological Ego | p. 109 |
The Background Unhappiness | p. 112 |
The Secret of Happiness | p. 114 |
Pathological Forms of Ego | p. 118 |
Work-With and Without Ego | p. 121 |
The Ego in Illness | p. 124 |
The Collective Ego | p. 125 |
Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality | p. 127 |
The Pain-Body | p. 129 |
The Birth of Emotion | p. 131 |
Emotions and the Ego | p. 134 |
The Duck with a Human Mind | p. 137 |
Carrying the Past | p. 139 |
Individual and Collective | p. 141 |
How the Pain-Body Renews Itself | p. 144 |
How the Pain-Body Feeds on Your Thoughts | p. 145 |
How the Pain-Body Feeds on Drama | p. 148 |
Dense Pain-Bodies | p. 151 |
Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body | p. 152 |
The Collective Female Pain-Body | p. 154 |
National and Racial Pain-Bodies | p. 157 |
Breaking Free | p. 161 |
Presence | p. 164 |
The Return of the Pain-Body | p. 167 |
The Pain-Body in Children | p. 169 |
Unhappiness | p. 172 |
Breaking Identification with the Pain-Body | p. 174 |
"Triggers" | p. 177 |
The Pain-Body as an Awakener | p. 180 |
Breaking Free of the Pain-Body | p. 183 |
Finding Who You Truly Are | p. 185 |
Who You Think You Are | p. 186 |
Abundance | p. 190 |
Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself | p. 192 |
Chaos and Higher Order | p. 194 |
Good and Bad | p. 195 |
Not Minding What Happens | p. 198 |
Is That So? | p. 199 |
The Ego and the Present Moment | p. 200 |
The Paradox of Time | p. 204 |
Eliminating Time | p. 206 |
The Dreamer and the Dream | p. 208 |
Going Beyond Limitation | p. 210 |
The Joy of Being | p. 213 |
Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego | p. 214 |
As Without, So Within | p. 217 |
The Discovery of Inner Space | p. 223 |
Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness | p. 227 |
Falling Below and Rising Above Thought | p. 229 |
Television | p. 230 |
Recognizing Inner Space | p. 233 |
Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? | p. 236 |
Right Action | p. 238 |
Perceiving Without Naming | p. 239 |
Who Is the Experiencer? | p. 241 |
The Breath | p. 243 |
Addictions | p. 246 |
Inner Body Awareness | p. 248 |
Inner and Outer Space | p. 250 |
Noticing the Gaps | p. 253 |
Lose Yourself to Find Yourself | p. 254 |
Stillness | p. 255 |
Your Inner Purpose | p. 257 |
Awakening | p. 259 |
A Dialogue on Inner Purpose | p. 262 |
A New Earth | p. 279 |
A Brief History of Your Life | p. 282 |
Awakening and the Return Movement | p. 284 |
Awakening and the Outgoing Movement | p. 288 |
Consciousness | p. 291 |
Awakened Doing | p. 293 |
The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing | p. 295 |
Acceptance | p. 296 |
Enjoyment | p. 297 |
Enthusiasm | p. 301 |
The Frequency-holders | p. 306 |
The New Earth Is No Utopia | p. 307 |
Notes | p. 311 |
About the Author | p. 315 |
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