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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The Background of It All | |
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| The Flawless Human Being | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of Nietzsche | |
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| The Universe of Signs | |
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| Man and God | |
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| Secular Science | |
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| Overview | |
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| Nietzsche, God, and Doomsday: the Consequences of Atheism | |
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| In the Mouth of Madness | |
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| Nietzsche and Science | |
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| Misconceptions about God | |
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| The Mansion and the Houseguests | |
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| The Base Self versus God | |
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| The Superman | |
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| The Base Self and Science | |
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| The Question of Darwinism | |
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| The Consequences | |
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| The Search for Superman | |
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| The Nightmare of Insanity | |
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| The Universe, Enlightenment, and Ethics | |
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| Man and Universe | |
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| The Significance of Man | |
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| Whatever You Do Comes Back to You | |
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| Gnosis | |
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| The Subject/Object Dichotomy | |
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| From Gnosis to Ethics | |
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| Sufi Ethics: No Spirituality Without Morality | |
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| Ethics and Spiritual Transformation | |
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| The Cane and the Skyscraper | |
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| The Ethics of God | |
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| The Role of Faith | |
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| Science and Sufism | |
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| Faith, Love, and Compassion | |
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| Sufi Psychology: an Introduction | |
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| Preliminaries: Body, Spirit, Self/Psyche | |
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| Self as Tyrant: The Base Self (Impelling Self) | |
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| Anthropocentrism | |
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| Cyberculture and the Future of Modernity | |
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| Higher Stages of Human Existence | |
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| The Way of the Self | |
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| The Base Self | |
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| The Critical Self | |
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| The Inspired Self | |
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| The Serene Self | |
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| The Pleased Self | |
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| The Pleasing Self | |
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| The Perfect, Pure, or Complete Self | |
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| The Way of the Spirit | |
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| The Subtle Body and Its Anatomy | |
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| Cornering the Ornery Self | |
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| The Essentials of Sufi Practice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Three Prerequisites of the Path | |
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| The Three Principles of Sufi Sainthood | |
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| Formal Prayer and Fasting | |
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| The Symbolic Meaning of Prayer | |
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| A Place in the Sun | |
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| The Satanic Verses and the Democratic Personality | |
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| Untime of the Imam | |
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| Material vs. Spiritual Knowledge | |
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| The Political Dimension | |
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| Democracy and Ethics | |
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| From Civility to Courtesy | |
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| Monotheism and Equality | |
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| The Open Society | |
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| The Nemesis of Democracy | |
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| World Poverty: A Sufi Proposal | |
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| The Station Beyond All Stations | |
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| The Sufi Saint | |
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| The Nature of the Encounter | |
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| Awakening | |
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| Spiritual Embryogenesis | |
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| Poverty and Self-emptying | |
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| The Paint of God | |
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| Culmination | |
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| Fundamentalism and the Taliban | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Index | |