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Images and Illustrations | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
A Novel Perspective | p. 1 |
The Web That Binds | p. 4 |
The Buddha's World and Life | p. 7 |
The Four Noble Truths | p. 11 |
The Reality of Global Suffering | p. 15 |
The Radiant Core of Buddhism | p. 15 |
Confronting the Shadow | p. 17 |
Disease of the Biosphere and Planet | p. 20 |
The Human Factor | p. 22 |
Climate Change and Rising Seas | p. 23 |
Mass Extinction of Species | p. 29 |
Shrinking Forests and Expanding Deserts | p. 33 |
Topsoil Disappearance and Degeneration | p. 35 |
Air and Water Pollution | p. 36 |
Ocean Pollution and Fish Decline | p. 37 |
Radioactive Waste and Electromagnetic Pollution | p. 39 |
Overpopulation and Overconsumption | p. 41 |
Economic Disparity and Violence | p. 44 |
Dwindling Water and Oil | p. 46 |
Sprawl and Urbanization | p. 49 |
Regional Conflicts | p. 51 |
Human Disease and Dis-ease | p. 53 |
What Ails Us | p. 54 |
Life, Liberty, and the Pandemic of "Happiness" | p. 57 |
Apathy and Alienation | p. 59 |
The Uniqueness of Our Situation | p. 61 |
The Roots of Global Suffering | p. 65 |
In the Beginning | p. 67 |
Evolution, Involution, and The Fall | p. 69 |
Cycles of Four | p. 72 |
The Story of the Universe, Condensed | p. 75 |
The Unfolding of Consciousness | p. 78 |
Structures of Consciousness | p. 79 |
The Mythic Mind and Monotheism | p. 86 |
Call Him Ishmael | p. 87 |
The Birth of the Mental | p. 90 |
The Western Worldview | p. 92 |
Ancient Greece and the Rise of Reason | p. 94 |
The Stoic Sensibility | p. 97 |
Christian Vision and Revision | p. 99 |
Space and Time Redefined | p. 101 |
The Perspectival World | p. 104 |
Rebirth, Reform, and Individualism | p. 105 |
Planetary Revolutions | p. 107 |
Rationalism and Empiricism | p. 111 |
Science vs. Religion and the Death of God | p. 115 |
The Enlightenment's Shadow of Subjectivity | p. 119 |
Modern Revolutions | p. 121 |
Existentialism and Postmodernism | p. 125 |
The American Mindset and Globalization | p. 128 |
America Means Business | p. 129 |
The Three Poisons | p. 134 |
A Sort of Homecoming | p. 137 |
Something of a Summary | p. 139 |
The Relief of Global Suffering | p. 143 |
The Potential for Progress | p. 143 |
Hope, Optimism, and Faith | p. 147 |
A New Way of Thinking | p. 149 |
The Great Transition | p. 152 |
Eschatons | p. 152 |
Arenas of Change | p. 155 |
Initiation and Individuation | p. 156 |
Through the Hourglass | p. 158 |
Dark Night, Early Dawn | p. 161 |
Integral Consciousness and Cosmology | p. 163 |
Microcosmic Insights | p. 165 |
A New Map of the Cosmos | p. 168 |
A Growing, Fecund Universe | p. 170 |
An Omnicentric Universe | p. 174 |
A Synthesis of Sacred and Secular | p. 177 |
Evidence of Evolution | p. 181 |
The World's Largest Movement | p. 182 |
Declarations of Interdependence | p. 188 |
New Monetary Models | p. 190 |
A Spiritual Renaissance | p. 191 |
North Meets South | p. 193 |
The Road to Recovery | p. 199 |
A Way Forward | p. 199 |
The Buddha's Noble Eight-fold Path | p. 201 |
Transformation and Translation | p. 204 |
Thinking Universally, Acting Personally | p. 206 |
In Search of Wise Relation | p. 209 |
Wise Relation with Self | p. 209 |
Ego and Then Some | p. 211 |
The Body | p. 213 |
Mindfulness Meditation | p. 217 |
Wise Relation with Others | p. 221 |
When It All Comes Down | p. 223 |
Universal and Unconditional Love | p. 225 |
Loving-Kindness Meditation | p. 230 |
Wise Relation with Other Species | p. 233 |
Jains and Carnivores | p. 236 |
The Food Chain and the Web of Life | p. 239 |
Wise Relation with the Earth | p. 242 |
A Brief Tour of Solar System and Psyche | p. 244 |
World Transits and Ages | p. 248 |
2012 and Beyond | p. 251 |
Wise Relation with the Feminine | p. 255 |
Integrating the Anima | p. 258 |
The Business of Birth | p. 262 |
The Sacred Marriage and Its Child | p. 263 |
Wise Relation with Space | p. 264 |
Buddhist Cosmology | p. 267 |
On Earth as It Is in Heaven | p. 270 |
Wise Relation with Time | p. 272 |
The Spiral of Existence | p. 274 |
Types of Time | p. 278 |
Looking Back through Time | p. 280 |
Wise Relation with the Divine | p. 282 |
Immanence and Transcendence | p. 285 |
Non-Duality, Wonder, and Mystery | p. 287 |
"Miracles" | p. 291 |
Epilogue | p. 293 |
Appendix: Poems | p. 297 |
Notes | p. 301 |
Primary Sources | p. 311 |
Index | p. 313 |
About the Author | p. 329 |
About Evolver Editions | p. 332 |
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