Ordinary v. Extraordinary
Acts of Transcendence
Sense of Meaning
Sacred Ideals


• Defining the Source
  
  Act of Attention
  The "Deep Center"
  Ability to Focus
  Presence of Will
  Views on the Will
  
  
• Self-Creation
  
  Sense of Autonomy
  False Assumptions
  Attention Chart
  The Immediate Challenge
  Life of a Soldier
  
  
• Ideal Relationships
  
  Nature of Reality
  Significance of Relationships
  Personal & Ultimate Reality
  "Reality Logo"
  
  
• The Last Magician
  
  Loneliness & Alienation
  "Measurer of All Things"
  Nature & Spirit
  Inner Vision
  
  

Something Worthwhile To Think About

• "Give Me Some Space"
  
  The Invisible Container
  Your Original Face
  A Worthy Guest
  
  
• The (W)hole Affair
  
  Eye of the Artist
  Black & White Holes
  A Magnificent Thing
  Crystal Ball Universe
  Immensity & Religious Feeling
  Extraterrrestrial Life
  
  
• Cosmic Citizens
  
  A. Freedom
  B. Wonder
  C. Beauty
  D. Community
  E. Goodness
  

• Exalting Change
  
  Process of Life
  Creative Will
  Transfiguration
  
  
• The Greatest Story
  
  Nature of Intelligence
  "Face of the Deep"
  Haven for Life
  
  
• The Leap Forward
  
  Thought & Language
  Personal Identity
  Birth of Care
  
  
• The Rational Self
  
  Flexibility
  Capacity to Reason
  Act of Writing
  
  
• Emergent Novelty
  
  Being Special
  Magical Thinking
  
  

• Power Tools
  
  Rationality
  Imagination
  Spirituality
  
  
• The Marvel Within
  
  Thought
  Memory
  Cognition
  
  
• New Realities
  
  Understanding
  Meaning
  
  
• The True Theater
  
  Mind's redeeming Qualities:
  
  A. Event of the "I"
  B. Idea Power
  C. Embedded Memory
  D. Receptive Fantasy
  E. Active Fantasy
  F. Self-Reference
  G. Sign of a Presence
  H. Self-Transposal
  
  

• Nihilism Reconsidered
  
  Ontological Regard
  Divine Conscience
  
  
• Core of Religious Feeling
  
  Beyond Control
  Dependency
  The Primal Family
  Birth & Circumstance
  
  
• A Monumental Discovery
  
  Journey of Discovery
  "Formal Thinking"
  Conditions of Life
  
  
• Transcendent Worth
  
  Creative Force
  Interdependence
  Identification
  Eternal Justification
  
  Unique & Novel
  The Human Body
  Radical Reality
  Possibilities
  
  
• Meaning of Heroes
  
  Caring Attitude
  Heroic Personality
  Nonindividualistic Ethics
  
  

• Religious Sensibility
  
  Hidden Truth
  The Mystical
  Practical Ideal
  
  The "Absolute Stance"
  Supra-Reality
  "Sanctity of Life"
  The "Numinous"
  
  
• The Most Beautiful Thing
  
  The Ultimate Reference
  Unknown & Known
  
  
• The Supreme Good
  
  Reverential Thinking
  "The More"
  Holy Icon
  
  
• Living in the Truth
  
  The Good Life
  The Unsayable
  Mythos
  True Self-Nature
  
  

• Body Literacy
  
  The Primary Task
  Somatic Continent
  Aesthetic & Rational
  
  Mind/Body Question
  Body History
  Energy Forces
  
  
• The Greatest Event
  
  Dead & Alive
  The Sublime Process
  Non-Ordinary Reality
  The Omega Effect
  
  
• The Creative Force
  
  Unconscious & Conscious Will
  Functions of the Will (3)
  
  
• World of the Senses
  
  1. Movement
  2. Touch
  3. Smell
  4. Taste
  5. Sound
  6. Sight
  
  
• The Aesthetic Experience
  
  The First Stage
  A Private Event
  An Art Form
  "Orange & Onion Theory"
  Center of Permanence
  
  

What Is Really Essential?

• Two Worlds
  Analytic & Mystic Schools (Perennial Philosophy)
  
  
• Eternity & Time
  Idealism, Religion, Metaphysics
  
  
• Enlightened Love
  Ontology & Eco-Philosophy
  
  
• Cosmic Humor
  Hermeneutics, Deconstructionism, Scepticism, Existentialism

• 1. Creative Attention
  Constructivism
  
• 2. Ideal Pursuits
  Idealism
• 3. Life-Making Process
  Evolutionism
• 4. Reverential Thinking
  Taoism
• 5. Fate & Circumstance
  Stoicism
• 6. Body Literacy
  Empiricism
• 7. The Present Moment
  SYNOPTIC PHILOSOPHY

Appendices:

• Attention Chart
• Sleep Chart
• Transfiguration Chart
• Peak Experience Chart
• META-CHART

• Reference Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index