| chapter one The Flowering of Human Consciousness |
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Our Inherited Dysfunction |
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The Arising New Consciousness |
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Spirituality and Religion |
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The Urgency of Transformation |
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A New Heaven and a New Earth |
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| chapter two Ego: The Current State of Humanity |
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Content and Structure of the Ego |
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Identification with Things |
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The Illusion of Ownership |
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Wanting: The Need for More |
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Identification with the Body |
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From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight |
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The Peace That Passes All Understanding |
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| chapter three The Core of Ego |
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Complaining and Resentment |
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Reactivity and Grievances |
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Being Right, Making Wrong |
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In Defense of an Illusion |
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Truth: Relative or Absolute? |
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Do You Want Peace or Drama? |
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Beyond Ego: Your True Identity |
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All Structures Are Unstable |
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The Ego's Need to Feel Superior |
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| chapter four Role-playing: The Many Faces of the Ego |
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Letting Go of Self-Definitions |
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The Monk with Sweaty Palms |
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Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness |
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Parenthood: Role or Function? |
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The Background Unhappiness |
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Pathological Forms of Ego |
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Work — With and Without Ego |
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Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality |
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| chapter five The Pain-Body |
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The Duck with a Human Mind |
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Individual and Collective |
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How the Pain-Body Renews Itself |
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How the Pain-Body Feeds on Your Thoughts |
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How the Pain-Body Feeds on Drama |
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Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body |
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The Collective Female Pain-Body |
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National and Racial Pain-Bodies |
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| chapter six Breaking Free |
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The Return of the Pain-Body |
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The Pain-Body in Children |
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Breaking Identification with the Pain-Body |
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The Pain-Body as an Awakener |
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Breaking Free of the Pain-Body |
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| chapter seven Finding Who You Truly Are |
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Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself |
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The Ego and the Present Moment |
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The Dreamer and the Dream |
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Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego |
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| chapter eight The Discovery of Inner Space |
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Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness |
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Falling Below and Rising Above Thought |
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Can You Hear the Mountain Stream? |
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Perceiving Without Naming |
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Lose Yourself to Find Yourself Stillness |
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| chapter nine Your Inner Purpose |
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A Dialogue on Inner Purpose |
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| chapter ten A New Earth |
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A Brief History of Your Life |
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Awakening and the Return Movement |
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Awakening and the Outgoing Movement |
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The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing |
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The New Earth Is No Utopia |
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| Notes |
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| About the Author |
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