1. THE HORIZON Read
    1. An Uptick in Consciousness Read
    2. The Arising Globalization and Multiculturalism Read
    3. Religion and Spirituality Read
    4. The Journey Read
    5. What Is Interspirituality? Read
    6. Differences Read
    7. Why Humans Disagree Read
    8. Healthy Change, Unhealthy Change Read
  2. THE MODERN DISCUSSION Read
    1. The Essence of Interspirituality Isn’t New Read
    2. The Core of Deepest Spiritual Experience Is Always the Same Read
    3. Needed Shifts in Global Awareness Read
    4. A Final Marker Read
    5. Taking Wing Read
  3. EVERYONE IS A MYSTIC Read
    1. The Everyday Reality of “I,” “We,” and “It” Read
    2. Fruits of the Integrative View Read
    3. How Religion and Spirituality Differ Read
    4. It’s Ultimately the Same Experience Read
    5. The Mystical Pursuit Read
    6. Reversing a Dangerous Course Read
    7. Centuries of the Materialistic and Mental Read
  4. FRAMING THE BIG PICTURE Read
    1. Process and Common Sense Read
    2. The Two Cultures of Knowing Read
    3. Pattern Versus Process Read
    4. What’s There to See in the Pattern? Read
  5. FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS IN A FEW PAGES Read
    1. After the Big Bang Read
    2. The Arising of Life on Earth Read
    3. Multicellular Creatures Like Us—Sex, Holarchy, and Hierarchy Read
    4. Earth’s First Green Revolution Read
    5. Disaster Leads to New Opportunities Read
    6. The Advent of Intelligent Life Read
    7. The Riddle of Humankind Read
    8. Kinds of Creationism Read
    9. The God of the Gaps Read
    10. A Biological Endgame? Read
    11. A Happy Ending? Read
  6. THE DAWN OF SPIRITUALITY Read
    1. Consciousness—the Power of a Name Read
    2. Toolmaking, Use of Fire, and the Growth of Consciousness Read
    3. Consciousness and Language: the Pivotal Connection Read
    4. Early Evidence for Spirituality Read
  7. EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION Read
    1. From Cosmology to the Challenge of Human History Read
    2. The Crossover Between Scientific and Religious Insight Read
    3. The Origin of Spirituality—the Experience of “the Gods” Read
    4. An Integrated View Read
  8. THE GREAT ADVANCES OF HUMAN HISTORY Read
    1. Let’s Eat: Farming Is Invented Read
    2. Our Heritage from these Early Eras Read
    3. The Second Great Advance: from Towns to Cities and Empires Read
    4. The Emergence of the God-Kings Read
    5. The Transition from God-Kings to Totalitarian Empires Read
    6. The Epoch of Totalitarian Empires Read
    7. Patriotism Is Born Read
    8. The Great Religions Arise Read
    9. Advances in Thinking Foreshadow a New Epoch Read
  9. THE DAWN OF THE RATIONAL EPOCH Read
    1. Authoritarianism Breaks Down Read
    2. A Global Plague Spurs a Renaissance in Consciousness Read
    3. From Renaissance to European Enlightenment Read
    4. Consciousness in the Renaissance and European Enlightenment Read
    5. Today’s Heritage from the Rational Epoch Read
  10. THE COMING OF WORLDWIDE CIVILIZATION Read
    1. The Beginning of Modernism Read
    2. Competition Leads to Calamity: the World Wars Read
    3. A World Pluralism Emerges Read
    4. Beginning of the Integrative Epoch Read
    5. Cold War, Space Race, and Culture War Read
    6. East-West Spiritual Cross-Pollination Read
    7. Fifth Great Advance: Automation and the Emerging Dream of Holism Read
    8. Holism and Interspirituality Read
  11. THE FIELD Read
    1. Disagreement about Consciousness Read
    2. Two Different Ideas Read
    3. The Great “Pass Around” Read
    4. The Philosophical Debate Read
    5. What Is Consciousness? Read
    6. Changes in Scientific Thinking Read
    7. The Qualities of Consciousness Read
    8. Definitions of Consciousness Read
  12. TAKING SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES SERIOUSLY Read
    1. Why People Believe What They Believe Read
    2. What People Say They have Experienced Read
    3. Religion and Spirituality’s Common Ground on Consciousness Read
    4. The Source of Division Read
    5. The Spiritual Experience of Consciousness Read
    6. The Genie in the Icebox Read
    7. Experience Always Seems to Rule Read
  13. SCIENTIFIC CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES Read
    1. Quantum Ideas of Consciousness Read
    2. The Future of Consciousness Read
  14. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD Read
    1. The Historical Breadth of Spirit World Experience Read
    2. The Spirit Realms Become Divided as Heaven and Hell Read
    3. Ancient Notions Persist into the Modern Day Read
    4. Modern Settings and Modern Academic Study Read
    5. Mainstreaming of Esoteric and Mystical Studies in World Academia Read
    6. It Takes Big Minds to See Big Pictures Read
    7. What People Actually Believe about the Spirit World Read
    8. Who Goes to Whose Heaven or Whose Hell? Read
    9. Better than Heaven and Hell Read
  15. THE SPIRIT REALMS IN EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE Read
    1. The Levels of Experience We Have Every Day Read
    2. Some Enchanted Evening Read
    3. A Collective View Read
    4. Honest Skepticism from Both Sides Read
    5. If Real, How Is the Spirit World Structured? Read
    6. Is it Actual Structures or Just Our Lens? Read
    7. Narratives of Spiritual, Astral, and Subtle Bodies Aren’t Going Away Descriptions of the Spirit Body Read
    8. Descriptions of the Spirit Body Read
    9. Spirit Body, East and West Read
  16. STORIES OF SPIRIT LEVELS, PLANES AND REALMS Read
    1. Nondual Plane and Archetypal or Shamanic Plane Read
    2. The Problem of Experience Chasing Read
    3. Spirit Realms in the Great Traditions Read
    4. Higher Realms, East and West Read
    5. The Spirit World Is Probably Already Interspiritual Read
    6. Where the Rubber Meets the Road Read
    7. What Validates the Claims of Mystical Experience? Read
    8. Spirituality and Our Current Evolutionary Threshold Read
  17. EARLY PIONEERS OF INTERSPIRITUALITY Read
    1. Early Pioneers Read
    2. Early Eastern Interspiritual Pioneers Read
    3. Early Western Interspiritual Pioneers Read
    4. Celebrities Light the Way Read
    5. Iconic Figures of East and West Usher in the Interspiritual Age Read
    6. An Icon of the West: Scientist and Priest Teilhard de Chardin Read
    7. Icons of the East: India’s Sri Aurobindo and The Mother Read
  18. TOWARD UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS Read
    1. 200 Years and 2,000 Books Read
    2. Origins of the Evolutionary Consciousness Movement Read
    3. Evolutionary Consciousness in Popular Cultures Read
    4. Coming of Age in the Holistic Era Read
    5. Selected Developments During the Emerging Holistic Epoch Read
    6. The Evolutionary Consciousness Movement Today Read
    7. From Shamans to Scientists Read
  19. THE GREAT COMING TOGETHER Read
    1. Where Does the Great Coming Together Take Us? Read
    2. The Solution: a Challenge as Old as Archimedes Read
    3. The Wiener in the Warp Drive Read
    4. Let’s Not Be Naïve Read
  20. SEEING WHAT’S COMING Read
    1. An Ever-Evolving Landscape Read
    2. The Ascending Tree of World Religions Read
    3. World Religions by Popularity Read
    4. Religions by What They Do Read
    5. Exploring the Branches Read
    6. The Biggest Boughs Read
  21. HOW RELIGIONS OPERATE TODAY Read
    1. The Top World Religions by Wealth Read
    2. Today’s Challenge: the Tangled Web at the Top of the Tree Read
  22. EMBRACING THE TREE AS ONE Read
    1. Awakening: the Shared Heritage of Unity Consciousness Read
    2. Historical Ironies and Paradoxes of a World Awakening Read
    3. The Ultimate Meaning of the Tree Read
  23. THE MEANING OF 2012 Read
    1. The Source of the 2012 Scenarios Read
    2. The Magic-Mythic Lens Is Still Compelling for Our Species Read
    3. Why All the Fuss? Non-apocalyptic Holistic Views of 2012 Read
    4. Have a Party on December 21, 2012 Read
  24. MOVING TOWARD THE WORLD-CENTRIC Read
    1. What Kind of Globalization? Read
    2. The Mystical Pursuit and Social Transformation Read
    3. The Collective World of “We” Read
    4. “We” and the Advancing Consciousness Read
    5. Failure Always Came Down to the Lack of an Integral Approach Read
    6. You Have to Admit It’s Getting Better Read
    7. Growth in Quality Read
  25. DARK VISIONS INTERRUPTED Read
    1. The Crucial Emergence of the Feminine Voice Read
    2. The Arising of Patriarchy Read
    3. The Beginning of Transformation Read
    4. The Feminine Voice Today Read
  26. BUILDING AND LIVING INTERSPIRITUALTY Read
    1. Spirituality as Religion Read
    2. Centering Religion on Consciousness Itself Read
    3. A Convergence of Faiths Read
    4. From Interfaith to Interspirituality Read
  27. INTERSPIRITUALITY BEFORE INTERSPIRITUALITY Read
    1. The Roots of Interspirituality Read
    2. Variety and Interspirituality Read
    3. The Message of Interspirituality After The Mystic Heart Read
  28. INTERSPIRITUAL LIFE AND PRACTICE Read
    1. Interspirituality Isn’t a New “Blend Religion” Read
    2. Holarchy and Hierarchy Read
    3. Circles in Practice: the Creation of Effective Collectives Read
    4. Democratizing Spirituality: Everyone Is a Pioneer Read
    5. Organizing the Interspiritual Dream Read
  29. CONCLUSION: REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S INTERSPIRITUALITY Read
    1. Redefining Spiritual Commitment and Lifestyle Read
    2. Interspiritual Education Read
    3. A Call to Universal Exploration Read
  30. Appendix I – Synopsis of the Developmental Periods Read
  31. Appendix II – Magic-Mythic and Apocalyptic Views of 2012 Read
  32. Appendix III – Institutions, Organizations, Associations and Centers Advancing the Vision of Interspirituality Worldwide Read
  33. Bibliography Read
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