| CHAPTER ONE The Flowering of Human Consciousness | | 1 | |
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| Our Inherited Dysfunction |
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| The Arising New Consciousness |
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| Spirituality and Religion |
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| The Urgency of Transformation |
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| A New Heaven and a New Earth |
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| CHAPTER TWO Ego: The Current State of Humanity | | 25 | |
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| Content and Structure of the Ego |
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| Identification with Things |
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| The Illusion of Ownership |
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| Wanting: The Need for More |
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| Identification with the Body |
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| From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight |
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| The Peace That Passes All Understanding |
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| CHAPTER THREE The Core of Ego | | 59 | |
| Complaining and Resentment |
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| Reactivity and Grievances |
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| Being Right, Making Wrong |
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| In Defense of an Illusion |
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| Truth: Relative or Absolute? |
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| Do You Want Peace or Drama? |
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| Beyond Ego: Your True Identity |
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| All Structures Are Unstable |
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| The Ego's Need to Feel Superior |
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| CHAPTER FOUR Role-playing: The Many Faces of the Ego | | 85 | |
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| Letting Go of Self-Definitions |
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| The Monk with Sweaty Palms |
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| Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness |
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| Parenthood: Role or Function? |
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| The Background Unhappiness |
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| Pathological Forms of Ego |
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| WorkłWith and Without Ego |
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| Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality |
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| CHAPTER FIVE The Pain-Body | | 129 | |
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| The Duck with a Human Mind |
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| Individual and Collective |
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| How the Pain-Body Renews Itself |
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| How the Pain-Body Feeds on Your Thoughts |
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| How the Pain-Body Feeds on Drama |
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| Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body |
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| The Collective Female Pain-Body |
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| National and Racial Pain-Bodies |
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| CHAPTER SIX Breaking Free | | 161 | |
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| The Return of the Pain-Body |
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| The Pain-Body in Children |
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| Breaking Identification with the Pain-Body |
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| The Pain-Body as an Awakener |
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| Breaking Free of the Pain-Body |
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| CHAPTER SEVEN Finding Who You Truly Are | | 185 | |
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| Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself |
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| The Ego and the Present Moment |
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| The Dreamer and the Dream |
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| Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego |
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| CHAPTER EIGHT The Discovery of Inner Space | | 223 | |
| Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness |
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| Falling Below and Rising Above Thought |
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| Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? |
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| Perceiving Without Naming |
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| Lose Yourself to Find Yourself |
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| CHAPTER NINE Your Inner Purpose | | 257 | |
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| A Dialogue on Inner Purpose |
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| CHAPTER TEN A New Earth | | 279 | |
| A Brief History of Your Life |
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| Awakening and the Return Movement |
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| Awakening and the Outgoing Movement |
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| The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing |
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| The New Earth Is No Utopia |
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| Notes | | 311 | |
| About the Author | | 315 | |