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Tables of Contents for The Mystic Heart
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
xiii
Preface
xvii
Dr. Beatrice Bruteau
Acknowledgments
xxi
Part I: Finding What Unites Us
Introduction The Mystic Heart: Our Common Heritage
3
248
The Interspiritual Age
The Parliament of the World's Religions
The Turn to Spirituality
A Dot on a Blackboard
A Bridge Across the Religions and Beyond
15
16
What Is Spirituality?
Spirituality in the Religions
The Nature of Mysticism and Spirituality
What Is Interspirituality?
The Treasure of Community
Crossing Over: Pioneers of Interspiritual Wisdom
31
20
The Meeting of Christianity and Hinduism
Dialogue Between Catholicism and the Other Religions
Buddhism Comes to the West
Finding Your Place in the Interspiritual Movement
The Mirror of the Heart: Consciousness As the Root of Identity
51
28
Hinduism: Supreme Identity in the Mahavakyas
Buddhism: Enlightenment, Shunyata, Nirvana, and the Doctrine of No-Self
The Greeks: Plato and Aristotle
The Christian Understanding
Who We Are Is Where We're Going
A New Paradigm of Identity: We Are Consciousness
Quantum Physics Shows Us Reality and Self-Identity
The Nature of the Divine
``The Paths Are Many But the Goal Is the Same'': Discovering the Way
79
26
The Inner Path: The Way of Contemplation
The Outer Path: The Way of Action
The Place of Spiritual Transformation
The Asramas and Margas: Living the Sacred
The Integration of Action and Contemplation
The Goal of the Spiritual Journey
Part II: The Practical Nature of the Mystical Way
The Mystic Character
105
20
The Problem of the Ego-Driven Life
The False Self
Actual Moral Capacity
Solidarity with All Living Beings
Deep Nonviolence
The Mystic or Contemplative Character
Who Is a Saint?
Spiritual Practice: The Crux of Inner Change
125
22
Humility
Spiritual Practice
Mature Self-Knowledge
Transformation As the Reality of Inner Change
Out in the World: The Spirituality of Action
147
26
Simplicity of Life
Selfless Service and Compassionate Action
The Prophetic Voice
The Fruits or Capacities of the Spiritual Journey
The Fruits of Spirituality Work Together
Part III: The Mysticism of the Natural World
Natural Mysticism: Reading the Book of Creation
173
38
What Is Natural Mysticism?
Readers of the Book of Nature
Natural Contemplation As the Capacity to Read the Books of Creation and Life
A Spirituality of Creation
The Mystical Experience of Totality
The Spirituality of Pilgrimage
Nutrition and Spirituality
Yoga and the Martial Arts
Toward a Holistic Spirituality
Natural Meditation
Discourse of the Rose
Part IV: Global Mysticism
The Promised Land of the Spiritual Journey
211
24
An Intermystical Bridge: The Guidelines for Interreligious Understanding
The Summit of the Spiritual Life
Mystic Visitations: Personal Experience of the Summit
Stations of the Mystical Summit
Dreams: Channels of the Sacred
Experimental Mysticism
Reaching the Further Shore of the Spiritual Journey
Becoming Cosmic in the Center
Opening the Heart of the World: Toward a Universal Mysticism
235
16
A Universal Communal Spirituality
Beauty in the Intermystical Journey
Discovering the Mystic Heart Together
A Special Message to the Young
The Church As Matrix of Interfaith Encounter
A Universal Order of Sannyasa
Chapter Notes
251
12
Glossary
263
10
Recommended Reading
273
6
Index
279