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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 | |