Table of Contents
Foreword by Roy Eugene Davis
Preface by Ashok Gangadean
Introduction by Authors
BOOK I: THE STORIES
Overview
Chapter 1: Sharon’s Story: A Reason to Live
Chapter 2: The Story of the Evolution of Consciousness
BOOK II: PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY
Chapter 3: The View from Nowhere
Chapter 4: First Challenge To the View: Questioning the
Assumptions of Materialism
Chapter 5: Second Challenge To the View: Exploring Hidden
Assumptions about Matter, Life, and Mind
BOOK III: THE JOURNEY
Third Challenge
Part I: The View from Infinity
Chapter 6: The View from Infinity
Part II: The Evolution of the Field
Overview
Chapter 7: Matter: The Birth of the Universe: Awakening of the Physical
Consciousness
Chapter 8: Life: The Evolution of Life: Awakening of the Vital Consciousness
Chapter 9: Animal Mind: The Evolution of the Physical Mind and Vital Mind
Chapter 10: Human Evolution I: The Nature of the Thinking Mind
Chapter 11: Human Evolution II: The Evolution of the Thinking Mind
Part III: The Knower of the Field
Overview
Chapter 12: The Soul and the Psychic Being: The Knower “Within” the Field
Chapter 13: The Ego
Part IV: Awakening to the Knower and Transformation of the Field
Overview
Chapter 14: The Play of Karma in the Individual
Chapter 15: Collective Karma: The Conflict between Soul and Ego
in the Life of America
Chapter 16: Psychic Awakening and the Transformation of the Individual
Chapter 17: Psychic Awakening and the Transformation of Society
Chapter 18: Spiritual and Supramental Awakening and Transformation:
Tuning the Finite To Infinity
APPENDIX A: SCIENCE AND YOGA
APPENDIX B: AN OUTLINE OF YOGA PSYCHOLOGY
APPENDIX C: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SRI AUROBINDO
AND MIRRA ALFASSA
APPENDIX D: A TRIBUTE TO INDRA SEN
Bibliography
Index
TABLE OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES
The Space of Awareness
Cultivating Inner Silence
Going Within
Deconstruction of a Reaction
Cultivating Intuitive Awareness