Table of Contents

	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