Abbreviated TOC
Synopsis .........................................................................................9
Acknowledgements ..................................................................... 19
Preface: Author's Note to the Reader ....................................... 21
Foreword: A Conceptual Orientation .......................................29
List of Acronyms, Symbols, and Foreign Words
and Phrases Used ................................................................39
BOOK 1: Awakening
SECTION 1:
Delusion or Knowledge: Is This Guy Nuts, or What? ...............................41
1 Introduction to Section 1 ...................................................43
2 Hey Mister, You Want to Learn to Meditate? ....................45
3 The Sacrificial Banana .......................................................47
4 Watch That First Step, It's a Big One ................................. 51
5 Is This Guy Monroe Nuts, or What? ..................................59
6 Face to Face With the Wizard of Whistlefield ..................63
7 The Adventure Begins ........................................................73
8 The Science of Altered States .............................................75
9 Breakthrough .......................................................................79
10 But Is It Real? .......................................................................83
11 If This is Tuesday, I Must Be in
Physical Matter Reality ........................................................89
12 End of an Era .......................................................................95
13 Once Upon a Time, a Long, Long Time Ago ...................97
14 This Kid is Weird Enough ................................................ 103
15 With a Little Bit of Help From My Friends:
How's Your Love life? ........................................................ 107
16 Here We Go Again! ........................................................... 111
SECTION 2
Mysticism Demystified:
The Foundation of Reality ................................................................... 113
17 Introduction to Section 2 ................................................. 115
18 In The Beginning ... Causality and Mysticism ...............123
19 Beware of the Belief Trap .................................................127
20 Causality in Every Dimension can Potentially
Transform a Mystic into a Scientist from Inner Space ..... 143
21 Cultural Bias ...................................................................... 149
22 The Right Attitude ............................................................ 161
23 Who Ya Gonna Call? ......................................................... 163
(A Guide to Meditation & Meditation
Technique - an Aside) ...................................................... 167
24 Two Concepts ..................................................................... 181
25 The Evolution of AUO: Awareness ...................................205
26 The Evolution of AUO: Who is That Masked
Consciousness Thing and What Can It Do? ................... 213
27 The Evolution of AUO: Patterns, Symbols,
Information, and Memory; Motivation and
Evolutionary Constraints .................................................. 219
28 The Evolution of AUO: The Birth of the
Big Computer.....................................................................233
29 The Evolution of AUO: The Birth of Time .....................239
