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CONTEnTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
PART ONE. Humanity at the Turning Point
1. Where Is Humanity Going?
2. The Way from Archaic to Rational Consciousness
3. The New Integral Consciousness
4. Time-Freedom, Transparency, and Holistic Experience
5. Transparency, or The Current Exigency as a Symptom of Crisis
6. What Can and Should Be Done?
7. The Hour of Birth for the New Man
8. A New Way of Thinking and a New Uprightness
9. The Forerunners, Tauler and Eckhart: Returning to Mysticism
PART Two. The Dimensions of Cosmic Consciousness
10. Mystical Experience and Scientific Discovery
11. The Present Crisis as a Harbinger of the Fourth
Dimension of Consciousness
12. Becoming a Part of the Whole through Freedom from
Ego
13. Prevailing over Space and Time: How to Cope with Stress and Cancer
14. Prophetic Elements in the Arts
15. The Fourth Dimension
16. The Theory of Relativity, or Prevailing over Materialism
17. Transcending Dualism in the Field of Biology
18. Open Thinking, or The End of Philosophy
19. The New Consciousness and Unconscious Archetypes, or
Avoiding Atomic War
20. Teilhard de Chardin: Eastern Roads, Western Roads
PART THREE. Transformation of Religious Consciousness
21. The Transformation of Consciousness
22. Transformations in Consciousness in Karl Jaspers' "Axial
Period"
23. The Present Threat: Nonsimultaneity in the
Transformation
24. Finding the Way Back to Our Religious Roots
25. New Access to the Scriptures
26. The Spiritual Vacuum in the West and What the East Has to Offer
27. Sri Aurobindo: Concrete Steps in Education Toward
Transformation of Religious Consciousness
PART FOUR. Meditation and the Experience of God
28. An Answer to the Longing for Meditation
29. Initial Difficulties
30. Beginning the Practice of Meditation
31. From Objective to Nonobjective Meditation
32. Cistern Water and Spring Water: Two Ways to Experience
God
33. Mystical Experience, East and West
34. The Third Eye of the Mystic and the Experience of Hugh of Saint-Victor
PART FIVE. Zen and Christianity
35. What Is Zen?
36. The Origin of Zazen
37. The Practice of Zen Meditation
38. The Master
39. Goals and Effects
40. Enlightenment
41. Kosen Imakita: "Like One Risen from the Dead"
PART SIX. The Transparency of God in Everyday Life
42. The Divine Milieu
43. Hope in the Present Crisis: Transparency of the Divine in the New Man
44. The New Consciousness in Everyday Life
45. "Yes to Christ but No to the Church": The Search for the Dwelling Place of Divine Reality
46. The Cloud of Unknowing: Coming to Our Spiritual Home in Everyday Life
HUGO M. ENOMIYA-LASSALLE: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
A NOTE ON ZEn SESSHIN
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The encounter with God, the experience of the absolute
Hugo Enomuja-Lasalle | December 1993 (Vol. VI, No. 11)
The encounter with God, the experience of the absolute, is a principle at work in ourselves... This awakening to the brightness of the inner light is a necessary step in the full spiritual development of the person, of EVERY person, a step in which the transcendental sense awakens, the inner eye opens, and reality is finally encountered. It is a breaking forth from the constricting shell of ego-consciousness, an opening to the breadth and fullness of life found in cosmic consciousness.
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Top review from the United States
R. Schwartz
5.0 out of 5 stars Dynamic, Meditative on the Consciousness and Physics
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2002
Why is this book out of print? This book is a Gem. Here are Hugo Enomiya-Lassalles thoughts on the consciousness as Jesuit Priest and Zen Master from his both his vast experience and influences of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's "Omega Point," to the Christian Mystic Johannes Tauler on meditation, to the contemporary German thinker Jean Gebser's analysis on man's development of consciousness to the Indian spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo.
Comparing mysticism, Zen and contemplative thinking with the physics of Karl Jaspers, Jean Gebser, Fritjof Capra (the Tao of Physics - 1975), and Karl Albrecht truly makes this book a masterpiece - all written in short, concise, non-exhaustive summaries. The copy I have was originally published by Shambhala publications.
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