What is included with this book?
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: The Great Awakening | p. 1 |
A Personal Perspective | |
Living in a Dead Universe | |
Cosmophilia: Love of the Universe | |
Does Aliveness | |
Make a Difference? | |
Where Are We? | |
The First Miracle | p. 19 |
We Are Giants | |
The Nearly Invisible Universe | |
Just Getting Underway | |
Our Intuitive Connection with the Cosmos | |
Imagine Building a Universe | |
The Science of a Living Universe | p. 33 |
A Unified Universe | |
An Ocean of Background Energy | |
A Continuously Regenerated Universe | |
Sentience at Every Level | |
Freedom at the Foundations | |
Able to Reproduce Itself | |
An Integrative View from Science | |
Who Are We? | |
Spirituality as Intimacy with a Living Universe | p. 59 |
Judeo-Christian Views | |
Islamic Views | |
Hindu Views | |
Buddhist Views | |
Taoist and Confucian Views | |
Indigenous Views | |
Western Views | |
Harvesting the Wisdom of Human Experience | |
The Mother Universe | p. 83 |
The Meta-Universe in Science | |
The Mother Universe in Wisdom Traditions | |
An Integrative View | |
Growing in the Mother Universe | |
The Soul's Body and Our Cosmic Identity | p. 93 |
The Size of Our Soul | |
Qualities of the Soul's Body | |
A Body of Light | |
A Body of Music | |
A Body of Love | |
A Body of Knowing | |
Recognizing Ourselves Before We Die | |
Where Are We Going? | |
Where Is the Universe Going? | p. 117 |
Life Within Life Within Life | |
Growing Self-Organizing Systems | |
Humanity's Central Project | |
A Garden for Growing Life | |
Humanity Is Halfway Home | p. 131 |
Humanity's Heroic Journey | |
Humanity's Journey of Separation | |
Our Supreme Test and Time of Initiation | |
Humanity's Journey of Return | |
The Second Axial Age | |
Awakening into the Living Universe | |
Stage I: Reflective Consciousness | |
Stage II: Oceanic Consciousness | |
Stage III: Flow Consciousness | |
Actions for the Journey Ahead | |
Six Vital Tasks for the Journey Home | p. 159 |
Co-Creating Our Story of Awakening | |
Cultivating Reflection and Reconciliation | |
Living Simply and Sustainably | |
Creating New Kinds of Community | |
Becoming Media-Conscious Citizens of the Earth | |
Bringing Our True Gifts into the World | |
The Promise of the Journey Ahead | |
Living in a Living Universe | p. 189 |
Meditations | |
Conversations | |
Notes | p. 201 |
Index | p. 219 |
About the Author | p. 227 |
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