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| Preface | |
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| Apocalyptic Times | |
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| The Task of the Conscious Individual | |
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| Now I Am Enlightened...Now I Am Not | |
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| What Is Enlightenment? | |
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| Escape from Suffering | |
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| Pain versus Suffering | |
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| Paths and Pitfalls to Enlightenment | |
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| The Artist's Way | |
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| Danger Brings a Moment-to-Moment Consciousness State | |
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| A Detour into Insanity on the Road to Consciousness | |
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| I Am Enlightened and You Are Not | |
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| The Danger of Spiritual Seduction | |
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| Going It Alone | |
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| Living the Aspects of My Unlived Life | |
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| Introduction to Integrative Consciousness | |
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| My Desire Realized: An Experience with Conscious Presence | |
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| Suffering No More | |
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| Absorption of Ego | |
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| Observation of Ego Defense Operating | |
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| What Is Stillness? | |
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| Awareness, Acceptance, and Integration | |
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| Exercise | |
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| The Beginning | |
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| The Beginning of My Spiritual and Physical Awakening | |
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| An Encounter in the Bookstore | |
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| The Matrix: Desire and Commitment to See Beyond Illusion | |
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| Choosing Between the Red and the Blue Pill | |
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| Inanna: Strength, Courage, Desire and Commitment to Continue Forth | |
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| Back to the Future: The Awakening | |
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| My Marriage as the Stage for My Underworld Drama Play | |
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| The Importance of Relationship to Awakening | |
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| The Integrative Consciousness Process | |
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| Integrative Consciousness | |
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| Duality States of Consciousness | |
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| Jung's Coniunctio Process | |
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| From Duality to Wholeness | |
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| Integrative Consciousness in the Corporate World? | |
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| Two defensive Egos Collide | |
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| Escape to the Monastery Mountain | |
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| My 'Ah-Ha' Moment | |
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| Once Again, into the Dragon's Den | |
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| Co-Creating Synchronistically | |
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| Summary of the Integrative Consciousness Process | |
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| Development of Duality in the Ego | |
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| The Purpose of Separation | |
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| The Separation Process during Childhood | |
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| Duality Exemplified | |
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| Integration Exemplified | |
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| The Psychology of Opposite George | |
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| Summary | |
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| Reflective Exercise | |
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| Awareness and the Witness State | |
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| Awareness and the Witness/Observer State | |
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| The Reactive Defended Ego's Evolution | |
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| Emotional Reactivity | |
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| Conscious Observance and Insight to Reactivity | |
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| Integrative Consciousness | |
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| Compassion in Action | |
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| The Observer State As Ego Defense | |
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| Projection: A Tool for Increasing Awareness | |
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| Balancing on the Balance Beam of Opposites | |
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| Multiple Dimensional Selves and the Development of Pattern | |
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| The Secret Life of Sam: Developing and Expressing a Defensive Pattern into Adulthood | |
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| Expressing An Object Relational Pattern as An Adult | |
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| Sam's Pattern Expressed in Light of Integrative Consciousness | |
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| The Different Paths of Evolving Through Insight | |
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| Relationships: The Path to Awareness | |
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| Projection and Patterning in Intimate and Marital Relationships | |
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| The Illusion of Wholeness | |
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| Phase I | |
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| The Initial Attempt to Transcend the Parental Psyche | |
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| Resource Image as Means to Anchor State of Consciousness | |
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| Stages of Integrative Consciousness through Relationship | |
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| Emergence of Consciousness - Emergence of Opposites Stage | |
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| Bargain Stage | |
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| Betrayal and Disillusionment Stage | |
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| Conscious Descent into the Unconscious - The Realization Stage | |
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| Integration | |
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| Relationship Dynamics of Partnership | |
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| Catching Projection and Patterning through Communication | |
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| Power and Control in Relationships | |
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| You've Lost That Loving Feeling | |
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| Placing a Cog in the Wheel of Manipulation | |
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| Bringing the Relationship into Conscious Relating | |
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| Gathering the Pieces of Your Scattered Psyche | |
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| Conscious Relating When You Think You Are Aware | |
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| Dancing Around Fear | |
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| Standing Alone in the Collective | |
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| The Subtle Art of Manipulation | |
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| Sympathy versus Compassion | |
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| Grasping the Slippery Pig...er...Ego | |
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| The Seduction of the Ego | |
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| Acceptance | |
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| The Resource of Heart-Centered,Observer Awareness | |
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| Heart-Centering as a Defensive Structure | |
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| Strength and Courage | |
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| Faith | |
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| Here We Go Again...The Cycle Continues | |
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| Meeting the Dark Self on the Sacrificial Altar | |
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| Heart Centering | |
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| Compassion and Unconditional Love, Attributes of the Heart | |
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| Putting Theory into Practice in Relationships of the Heart | |
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| The Art of Heart-Centering | |
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| Research on Heart-Centered Awareness | |
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| Rhythms of the Heart | |
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| Putting Theory into Practice in Relationships | |
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| Descent into the Unconscious | |
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| Phase II - The Descent | |
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| The Dark Side of the Heart | |
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| Deciding to End My Suffering | |
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| Moving into Phase III � Integration | |
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| Being My Mother's Daughter | |
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| Coming Full Circle in the Marriage | |
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| The Divorce Ceremony | |
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| Resonance | |
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| A Daughter's Loving Gesture | |
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| Carrying Another's Unconscious Relationship | |
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| What Dreams May Come | |
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| Making a Heartfelt Connection to Another | |
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| The Risk of Resonance | |
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| Making the Connection | |
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| Surrender | |
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| Integration | |
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| Resonance-Extending to Others | |
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| References | |