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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Method in My Madness | |
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| Trust Experience | |
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| Multidisciplinary Strategy | |
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| The Spirit That Blows… | |
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| Creation as Primary Revelation | |
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| In the Beginning… | |
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| The Bang That Radiated | |
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| Religious Origins | |
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| Genesis Revisited | |
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| Origins Fascinate | |
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| The Inspired Mind | |
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| The Enlivening Spirit | |
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| Out of the Vacuum | |
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| The Energetic Vacuum | |
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| Vibrational Strings | |
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| Meaning from Within | |
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| Energizing the Energy | |
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| Scientific Insight | |
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| The Capacity for Self-Organization | |
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| Is There a Theological Raison d'�tre? | |
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| The Supernatural in Creation | |
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| Gifts of the Spirit | |
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| And There Was Life | |
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| Origin of Life | |
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| Life in Action | |
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| Life as System | |
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| Life as a Cosmic Process | |
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| The Spirit of Life | |
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| The Relational Web | |
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| The Entangled Universe | |
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| Vibrational Relationships | |
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| Theological Implications | |
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| At the Nexus of Relating | |
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| The Relational Spirit | |
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| The Great Spirit: Aboriginal Wisdom | |
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| Beyond Religion | |
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| Native American Religions | |
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| Australian Aborigines | |
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| Native American Spirituality | |
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| The Spirit of Africa | |
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| Spirit: Ancient and New | |
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| African Animism | |
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| African Spirits | |
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| A Complex Landscape | |
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| Is There a Great Spirit in African Spirituality? | |
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| The Asian Pantheon | |
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| The Great Religions of Asia | |
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| Ancient Chinese Beliefs | |
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| Indigenous Religions of Asia | |
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| Shamanism and the Great Spirit | |
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| The Subverted Spirit | |
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| The Great Spirit in Christianity | |
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| Upgrading the Holy Spirit | |
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| Trinity as an Archetypal Statement | |
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| Enter Church | |
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| The Orthodox Wisdom | |
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| Spirit Christology | |
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| Wisdom from the East | |
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| Re-visioning the Creator | |
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| And What about Jesus? | |
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| The Trinity Seen Anew | |
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| The Erotic Spirit in Creation | |
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| The Erotic Spirit | |
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| Spirit of the Wild | |
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| Sophia's Erotic Creation | |
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| The Spirit of Nonduality | |
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| The Befriending Spirit | |
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| Invoking the Paraclete | |
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| A New Pentecost? | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| True to Christian Origins | |
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| Key Beliefs Today | |
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| Impact on Conventional Churches | |
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| Revivalist in What Sense? | |
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| Personal Obstruction | |
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| Defined by the Web of Life | |
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| Innately Relational | |
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| Spirit and Person | |
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| Enter the Transpersonal | |
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| The Transpersonal Spirit | |
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| The Spirit That Blows | |
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| Horizons of Greater Transparency | |
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| First Horizon: The Indigenous Notion of the Great Spirit | |
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| Second Horizon: The Spirit in Creation | |
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| Third Horizon: The Spirit in Personhood | |
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| Fourth Horizon: The Spirit in Religion | |
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| Fifth Horizon: From Third to First in the Trinity | |
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| Sixth Horizon: Even Jesus Is Empowered by the Spirit | |
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| Seventh Horizon: Sacramental Empowerment | |
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| Eighth Horizon: The Spirit Thai Lures | |
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| Holy Restlessness | |
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| The Final Word | |
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| Spiritualism and the Great Spirit | |
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| Does St. Paul Have Anything to Offer on the Great Spirit? | |
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| Carl Jung and the Holy Spirit | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |