Table of Book Contents
Introduction.
- Healing your world from the inside out.
- The story behind Bobby and the Meeting of the Truth Seekers.
- Einstein and the Society of Truth Seekers.
- Interpreting the Truth Seekers’ wisdom.
- A few words about the Wordless.
- Wisdom for unwise times.
- The wisdom of insight.
- Building a community of Truth Seekers.
- Reading this Book.
- Acknowledgments.
Biographies of the Twelve Truth Seekers.
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Alan Wilson Watts.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki.
- Carl Gustav Jung.
- Albert Einstein.
- Sri Aurobindo.
- Black Elk (Heháka Sápa).
- John Muir.
- Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim).
- Hildegard of Bingen.
- Plotinus.
- Laozi (Lao Tzu or Lao-Tze).
- Figure 1. The Twelve Seekers and Bobby at the Roundtable
- Figure 2. The Thirteen Roundtable Insights
Prologue. Two bicycles, Einstein’s death, a cat’s paw, and a violin
- Einstein’s death and the Akron bike shop
- Following the Black Cat into the Roundtable Room
- Entering the Twilight World of Druid Heights
Chapter 1. Opening the Meeting of the Society of the Truth Seekers
- Albert opens the Meeting
- Carl describes the Roundtable
- Bobby learns about the Society of Truth Seekers
- Bobby learns about the Meeting and his role in it
Chapter 2. Our outer crises of inner neglect
- The symptoms of our environmental and social crises
- Humanity’s self-created crises call for soul healing
- The causes of our crises
- Our drift toward disaster
- The General Cure: Heal Culture and Nature from the inside out
Chapter 3. Envisioning a new
cosmology healing Sense and Spirit
- We need a new cosmology that harmonizes science with soul
- Healing the split between scientific and spiritual cosmologies
- Involution informs and energizes the Cosmic Singularity that explodes as
the evolving universe
- The Play of Spirit-in-Matter is a metaphorical cosmology that harmonizes
with science’s Big Bang cosmology
- The One Being gives being to all beings
- Individual Involution and Evolution
Chapter 4. Integral Psychology and the Three Healings
- The Spectrum of Consciousness
- The Lines of Development
- The Quadrants
- Consciousness growth heals cultural conflict
- The four drives of Evolution
- The development of the Either/Or Ego Persona
- Ego suffering moves you beyond ego
- Surrender the ego to liberate the soul
- From me” to “us” to “all of us”
- Self-salvation is world salvation
- The Three Healings correct our destructive assumptions
- The Three Healings continue evolution beyond ego
Chapter 5.The First Healing: The Undivided Mind is Free
Introduction to the First Healing: Soulful Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- The First Insight: You are the Still Witness of All. Be the Silence
between thoughts!
- The Second Insight: The map is not the territory. Experience the world
beyond words!
- The Third Insight: Opposites depend on each other. Think Both-And!
- The Fourth Insight: Light emerges from darkness. Transform your shadow into
light!
Chapter 6. The Second Healing: This is IT!
Introduction to the Second Healing: Be an embodied spirit in a spirited
body!
- The Fifth Insight: It’s always Now. Be present!
- The Sixth Insight: All is accomplished without effort. Do by Being!
- The Seventh Insight: Everything flows. Let it be and let it go!
- The Eighth Insight: Death is life-renewing itself. Die daily to live
fully!
Chapter 7. The Third Healing: The Universe is your Body
Introduction to the Third Healing: You belong to this universe!
- The Ninth Insight: As above, so below. See the whole in the part!
- The Tenth Insight: You are also an I. Honor the One in the many!
- The Eleventh Insight: War has no winners. Shift from lose-lose to win-win!
- The Twelfth Insight: The universe is your body. Honor Nature inside and
out!
Chapter 8. Being, Seeing, and Serving Spirit-in-Matter
The Thirteenth Insight: This is IT! You’re IT! Live Heaven on Earth!
- The Essential Insight: See and Serve the One Being in All!
Epilogue. Closing the meeting of the Society of the Truth Seekers
Appendix A. Integral Maps for your Healing Journey
- Figure 3. Dynamics of the Divine Play of Spirit-in-Matter
- Figure 4. The Spectrum of Consciousness: Transcendence and Integration
- Figure 5. The Quadrants: Integrating the Four Aspects of Being
- Figure 6. The Four Drives of Evolution
- Figure 7. Ego Development and Healing: Three Distinctions and Integrations
- Figure 8. The Cycle of Self-centered Suffering
- Figure 9. The Cycle of Transpersonal Blessing
- Figure 10. Ethical Expansion: From Egocentric to Ecocentric
- Figure 11: Absolute Unity embraces Duality
Appendix B. Glossary of Special Terms
Alan Wilson Watts.
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