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| Preface: Why I am Writing This Book | |
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| The Gift Is Already Given | |
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| When You Surrender to Fear and Distraction | |
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| When You Joyfully Surrender to God | |
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| Discover Your Birthright | |
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| Prayer - Practicing Heaven Now | |
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| The Great Unsaying | |
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| Three Ways to View the Sunset | |
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| The Urgent Need for Contemplative Seeing | |
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| What It Means to Be a Mystic | |
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| We Should Have "Known" Better | |
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| Knowing Worse: All-or-Nothing Thinking | |
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| Knowing Better: Contemplation and Presence | |
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| Mystical Christianity: A Critique from Within | |
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| A Lesson from the Monks | |
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| The Limitations of Individualism | |
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| A Debate Everyone Can Win | |
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| Glimpses of Wonder: The Quest Is Begun | |
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| But We Have to Make Judgments, Don't We? | |
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| We See What We Are Ready to See | |
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| The Radical Perceptual Shift: Is It True? | |
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| Yes, But | |
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| Not Many Things, but One Thing | |
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| Getting Thrown Off Your Horse: Sudden Conversion | |
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| Gradual Conversion | |
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| How Martha Becomes Mary: Willfulness and Willingness | |
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| What about Jesus? | |
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| The Prayer of Jesus | |
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| Not Here, Not There | |
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| The Two Heels of a Christian Achilles | |
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| Conversion: Begin by Changing the Seer | |
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| Healing the Observer | |
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| Three Levels of Conversion | |
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| Change Your Mind | |
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| The Ego Hates Change | |
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| Different Religions, Same Ego Resistance | |
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| Inertia Resists Change | |
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| Heaven and Hell: You Must Change Again and Again | |
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| Things "Too Good to Be True": From Polarity Thinking to Prayer | |
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| Reframing False Dilemmas | |
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| Alternative Consciousness | |
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| Prayer Is Resonance | |
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| Experience Impossible and Improbable Things | |
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| The Lost Tradition | |
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| The Decline of Contemplation | |
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| More Recent Rediscoveries | |
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| Faith Is More How to Believe Than What to Believe | |
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| Opening the Door: Great Love and Great Suffering | |
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| What Nondual Thinking Is Not | |
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| The Watchful Gaze: What Do We Mean by Being "Awake"? | |
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| The Meaning of Spiritual Love | |
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| Sinners, Mystics, and Astrophysicists: How to Celebrate Paradox | |
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| The Value of Paradox | |
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| Greek Logic | |
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| Trinity | |
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| Physics and Astrophysics | |
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| What It Means to Follow Jesus | |
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| What Every Good Leader Knows | |
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| The Principle of Likeness: In the End, It All Comes Down to This | |
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| Appendices Practicing The Naked Now | |
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| Levels of Development | |
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| Training for the "Third Eye" | |
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| Litany of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Practicing Awareness | |
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| Christian Tantra: The "Welling Up" Exercise | |
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| The Prayer of the Self-Emptying One | |
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| The Virgin Prayer | |
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| Walking Meditation: The Mirror Medallion | |
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| A Joyful Mind | |
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| The Shining Word "And" | |
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| Notes | |