1. Tripping the Night Fantastic
Exercise 1: Who—and What—Am I? .
Exercise 2: Take Me to the River
3. White Crows: Mystics, Savants, and Other Harbingers of Human Potential
Exercise 3: Mystic Mind (or How to Crack Open the Cranium)
4. Wake Up! Greek Philosophy Breaks the Trance
6. Homo Anxious: I Think, Therefore I Worry
7. Newsflash: Science Declares God Is Dead— But Can't Prove It! (or The Scientific Atheism Fallacy)
Exercise 4: Mindfulness Walk: “Being” Without Thinking.
Exercise 5: Am I a Neuron in the Mind of God?
9. The Physical World: The Tip of the Reality Iceberg
Exercise 6: More to Reality Than Meets the Eye
10. Real Deal Reality: Beyond Sense and Beyond Reason
Exercise 7: Beyond Logic: Riddles and Paradoxes
Part IV
Pythagoras, the Big Beat, and Cosmic Consciousness
11. Pythagoras Squared: Who Was This Mystic Mathemagician?
Exercise 8: Infinity: The Ultimate Mind Trip
12. Good Vibrations: Pythagoras and the Big Beat
Exercise 9: The Cosmic Symphony: Music from the Universal Orchestra
13. Plato's Retreat—from the Material World
Exercise 10: The Universe as One Big Thought
14. On the Nature of Change: The More Things Change
Exercise 11: Change: The Great Illusion
Exercise 12: Incubation (or How Death Can Transform Your Life)
Part VI
Yes, But.. What Does It All Mean?
16. New Science and Old Wisdom