A NEW EARTH (Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
CONTENTS
Chapter One
The Flowering of Human Consciousness – 6
Evocation..........6
The Purpose of This Book....8
Our Inherited Dysfunction..........10
The Arising New consciousness........12
Spirituality and Religion..................14
The Urgency of Transformation.........16
A New Heaven and a new Earth...........18
Chapter Two
Ego: The Current State of Humanity – 19
The Illusory Self..........20
The Voice in the Head.......22
Content and Structure of the Ego.......24
Identification with Things....................25
The Lost Ring.....................26
The Illusion of Ownership.................29
Wanting: The Need for More......31
Identification with the Body........33
Feeling the Inner Body...............34
Forgetfulness of Being.......................35
From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight..............36
The Peace that Passes All Understanding.............37
Chapter Three
The Core of Ego – 39
Complaining and Resentment..................40
Reactivity and Grievances......................42
Being Right, Making Wrong..................43
In Defense of an Illusion.....................44
Truth: Relative or Absolute?..............45
The Ego Is Not Personal.................46
War Is a Mind-set..........................48
Do You Want Peace or Drama? ..........49
Beyond Ego: Your True Identity .......50
All Structures are Unstable...............51
The Ego's Need to Feel Superior............52
Ego and Fame........52
Chapter Four
Role-Playing: The Many Faces of the Ego - 54
Villain, Victim, Lover...................55
Letting Go of Self-Definitions.....56
Pre-established Roles........57
Temporary Roles............58
The Monk with Sweaty Palms..............59
Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness...59
Parenthood: Role or Function? .....60
Conscious Suffering............................63
Conscious Parenting.......................64
Recognizing Your Child............65
Giving Up Role-playing................66
The Pathological Ego.................68
The Background Unhappiness.............70
The Secret of Happiness.......71
Pathological Forms of Ego........73
Work – with and Without Ego........75
The Ego in Illness.......77
The Collective Ego.........77
Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality........79
Chapter Five
The Pain-Body - 80
The Birth of Emotion...........................81
Emotions and the Ego.................83
The Duck with a Human Mind............85
Carrying the Past...........................85
Individual and Collective.....................87
How the Pain-Body Renews Itself.........89
How the Pain-body Feeds on Your Thoughts..................90
How the pain-Body Feeds on Drama......91
Dense Pain-bodies...............................93
Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body...........94
The Collective Female Pain-body.............95
National and Racial Pain-bodies.........97
Chapter Six
Breaking Free - 99
Presence............100
The Return of the Pain-Body......102
The Pain-body in Children..................103
Unhappiness...............105
Breaking Identification with the Pain-body......106
“Triggers”...........108
The Pain-Body as an Awakener............110
Breaking Free of the Pain-Body..........112 .
Chapter Seven
Finding Who You Truly Are - 113
Who you Think you are.............114
Abundance.........116
Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself.......................................117
Chaos and Higher Order...............118
Good and Bad.......119
Not Minding What Happens.............120
Is That So?................121
The Ego and the Present Moment ..........122
The Paradox of Time.............124
Eliminating Time...................125
The Dreamer and the Dream............127
Going Beyond Limitation.....................128
The Joy of Being...........................130
Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego.....130
As Without, So Within....................132
Chapter Eight
The Discovery of Inner Space - 135
Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness..............137
Falling Below and Rising Above Thought...............138
Television.................139
Recognizing Inner Space..................141
Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? ......143
Right Action.........144
Perceiving Without Naming.............144
Who Is the Experiencer? ...........146
The Breath.............147
Addictions...........149
Inner Body Awareness..............150
Inner and Outer Space..................151
Noticing the Gaps.............153
Lose yourself to Find Yourself........153
Stillness.......154
Chapter Nine
Your Inner Purpose - 155
Awakening.............156
A Dialogue on Inner Purpose.............158
Chapter Ten
A New Earth - 167
A Brief History of Your Life...........169
Awakening and the Return Movement.....170
Awakening and the Outgoing Movement...................172
Consciousness...........174
Awakened Doing.........175
The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing......176
Acceptance.........177
Enjoyment..............177
Enthusiasm............180
The Frequency-holders............183
The New Earth Is No Utopia...........184