On the Mystery of Being

Contents

Part One: Voices of Contemporary Spirituality

• Love and Wonder, Adyashanti
• Ordinary Awakening, Gangaji
• Closer to Heaven, Closer to the Mud, Jeff Foster
• The Magic of Shared Awareness, Sally Kempton
• The Essence of the Mind, Rupert Spira
• Faces of the Infinite in Everyday Life, Dorothy Hunt
• The Wonder of Unknowing, Mauro Bergonzi

Part Two: The Rebirth of Metaphysics

• Nondual vs. Scientific Views of Reality, A. H. Almaas
• Of Consciousness and Paradox, Jean Houston
• Be Blissful, Robert Thurman
• The Qualitative Science of the Heart, Kabir Helminski
• The Anomaly of Consciousness, Peter Russell
• Radiant Intimacy of the Heart, Cynthia Bourgeault

Part Three: Science Embraces Consciousness

• A Brief History of Consciousness, Stuart Hameroff
• Reality Is Eye Candy, Donald Hoffman
• How to Make a Universe, Jude Currivan
• Mind, Matter, and Life: A Unified Systemic View, Fritjof Capra
• Mind and the Wave Function Collapse, Henry Stapp
• Idealism Reloaded: The End of the Perception-Imagination Duality, Bernardo Kastrup

Part Four: The Wonder of Nature

• Fundamental Awareness: The Universe Twiddling Its Thumbs, Neil D. Theise
• Rethinking the “Dumb Random Universe” Model of Existence, Robert Lanza
• The Origin of Life and Consciousness: Lifting and Gifting Our Collective Future, Bruce Damer
• Resurrecting Real Magic, Dean Radin
• The Mycology of Consciousness, Paul Stamets
• The Ecological Initiation, Charles Eisenstein

Part Five: The Body as Teacher

• What Are Our Bodies? Chris Fields
• The Essence of Yoga: Exploring Our True Body, Ellen Emmet
• The Cerebrospinal Fluid and I Am, Mauro Zappaterra
• Lessons from the Body, Larry Dossey
• The Body, the Medical System, and Modern Society, Gabor Maté
• Cancer as an Awakening Journey, Joan Tollifson

Part Six: The Heart of Intimacy

• Reflections on Intimacy, Zhen Dao
• Awakened Relating: Being Awake to Our InfiniteNature in Finite Human Relationships, Lynn Marie Lumiere
• Intimacy and Keeping the Spark Alive, Michaela Boehm
• The Call of the Earth Goddess: Re-membering a Spirituality of Wholeness, Chameli Ardagh
• The Ego Cannot Love, Eric Baret

Part Seven: Exploring the Shadows

• Developmental Trauma and the Transformationof Anger and Rage, Julie Brown Yau
• Healing Trauma as a Spiritual Path: Individual and Collective Dimensions, Peter A. Levine
• Mongolian Shamanic Trance, Corine Sombrun
• Dreaming the Mystery of Being Aware, Stephen LaBerge
• Fifteenth-Century Alchemy and Twenty-First-Century Liberation, Pamela Wilson
• Reconnecting to a Child Within, Edward Frenkel

Part Eight: Doorways to Heaven

• The Science and Mystery of Consciousness, Pim van Lommel
• Grief, Unmani
• Three Basic Freedoms, James Fadiman
• The Blessings of Brokenness, Vera de Chalambert
• The Portal of a Poem, Mirabai Starr
• The Human Journey, Shakti Caterina Maggi