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. 

•  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