Index

ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), 27–28, 199

abstract operations, xvii, 52–53

adolescence, 84, 91, 116, 129

bonding vs. attachment and, 141

love at, 149–53

post-biological development and, xiii–xiv, xvii, 7, 21, 138–40

adrenal hormones, birth and, 27–28, 33, 36, 199

Africa, 79

Aikido, 86, 183

Ainsworth, Mary, 201

Alexander, Colonel John, 75, 204

American Indians, 69

Amrit, 162–63, 177

analogical language, 72, 77, 86, 92

play and, 61

in transition to logical thinking, 19, 53, 57–61

analogy, definition of, 57

animals:

and models, 113–14

role of, in intuitive stage, 57, 58, 60

animus, anima, 143

Apinaye (Brazilian people), 180–81

atomic energy, 94

see also weapons production

attachment vs. bonding, 25–27, 34–35, 37–40, 126–27, 129–30, 136, 139–41, 151–52, 162, 175

sexuality and, 151–54, 156–57

society and, see culture

attention, energy of, 16–17, 20, 42

Auguries of Innocence (Blake), 105

Augustine, Saint, 179

Australian Aborigines, xx, 69–71, 202–4, 207

autism, 6, 200

autonomy, 6–7

of ego, 7, 52, 133–35, 139–40

spiritual development and, 139

awareness, see ego/ego awareness

Bateson, Gregory, xix, 174, 212, 216

behaviorism, xiv, xx, 82, 88, 102, 142, 162, 204

belief vs. faith, 132

Bell, John, 97

Bell’s theorem, 97–99, 102, 177, 205, 206

Benzene ring, xx

Berkeley, University of California at, 80

Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 198

Bhagavad Gita, 216

biofeedback, 212

biological development, 135–39

model-blueprint dynamic in, 1–5

and post-biological development, xiv–xv, xvii, xxii, 1, 5–9, 21–23, 40

sketch of, xxi

stages of, xvii, xix

threefold brain and, 10–21

see also intelligence, development of; and specific developmental stages

birth:

ACTH and, 27–28, 199

activation of sensory needs at, 28–35

and bonding, 24–40

hospital/technological, 35–40, 63, 74, 127, 159

underwater, 199

blacks, hospital births and, 35–36, 200

Blake, William, 67, 69, 105, 122, 151, 195

blueprints, see models

Bohm, David, xix, 100–102, 104, 105, 110, 117–20, 122, 124, 143, 168, 171, 176, 206–7, 211, 213–14

Bond of Power, The (Pearce), xiv, 107, 161, 177, 182, 215–16

bonding, 9, 24–40, 126, 171

activation of sensory needs and, 28–35

breastfeeding and, 30–31, 33–35

chakras and, 147–54

with earth, 70, 126

and logical gaps, 171

mid-brain and, 24–25, 31–32, 34, 37, 74

natural childbirth and, 24–25, 27–34

particles and, 98–99, 177

Shakti and, 144–45, 154–55, 157

storytelling and, 59–60

technology vs., 35–40

see also attachment vs. bonding

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 67

brain:

chakras and, 146

ego and, 84

and possibility, 104

threefold development of, xix–xxii, 10–20, 71–74

see also mid-brain; new brain; old brain

brain damage, delivery-induced, 35–37, 201

Brain/Mind Bulletin, xix, 140, 214

brain research, xviii–xix, 8, 212

Brandt, Anthony, 203

breastfeeding, 30–31, 127

and bonding, 30–31, 33–35

first milk (colostrum), 30, 199

and intelligence, 31, 199

period of, and spacing of children, 202

universal nursing position, 28, 30, 31, 33

Bulgaria, 79

Burgess, Thornton, 202

Call, Justin, 199

Callaghan, Kerry, 200

Campbell, Jean, 205

Cassirer, Ernst, 47

Castaneda, Carlos, xviii, 124, 140, 164, 165, 167, 183, 185, 195, 216

Cayce, Edgar, 207–8

celibacy, 157, 215

cerebellum, 124

cesarean section, 201

chakras, 145–54, 157–59, 215

fifth (time-space/throat), 146, 167–68

first (physical), 146, 147, 152

fourth (emotion/heart), 146, 148–51, 157, 164–67, 169

list of, 146

second (sexual/sensual), 146, 147, 161–63

seventh (intuition/realization), 146, 168–69

sixth (intelligence), 146, 168, 169, 193

third (will), 146, 148, 154, 164–66

Chagnon, Napoleon A., 215

chance, 115

Chasm of Fire, The (Tweedie), 145

Chidvilasananda, see Gurumayi

child abuse, 38–39, 45

Chile, 202

Christ Principle, 192, 193, 195

Christianity, xvii, 216–17

Gnostic, xvi–xvii, 146, 158, 179

circumcision, 36, 201

clairvoyance, 68

Clauser, John, 97–98

colostrum, 30, 199

compensation, 197

competence, see cycle of competence

complementarity, principle of, xv, xvi, xix, 99, 171–72, 209

concrete language, 47–50, 86

concrete operations, xiii, xvii, xxii, 20–21, 52–53, 76–82, 136

formal, 85

law of conservation and, 76, 77, 81

measurement and, 78, 81

paranormal phenomena and, 75–82, 204, 205

Condon, W., 95

consciousness:

cerebellum and, 124

as energy, 101–4

in yogic cosmology, 99–100

see also ego/ego awareness

corpus callosum, 13–14, 18, 44, 72, 202

Crack in the Cosmic Egg, The (Pearce), xxii, 164

creation/creativity, 21–23, 91

imagery and, 121

mind/brain and, 117–20

play and, 5, 61–62

Self as, 178, 193

storytelling and, 58–59

television and, 63–66

yogic teaching on, 143–44

creative insight, 22

crib death, 35

crime rates, 39, 201

cross, symbol of, 158, 159

culture, 126–33, 138, 141, 175, 194, 195

attempt to change, 130–31

and faith, 132

and love, 127–28

models in, 128–29, 133

and sexuality, 128, 151–59

and spirit, 132, 133

see also attachment vs. bonding

cycle of competence, 50–53, 73–74

practice/variation stage of, 50–53, 55, 57, 62, 73–74

roughing-in stage of, 50, 51, 55

sorting-out stage of, 50, 51, 53, 55

day-care centers, 39, 74, 201

death, nuclear threat and, xviii

death-and-dying movement, xvii–xviii, 210

Deikman, Arthur, 213

delivery, see birth

Delta Company, 75

development, see biological development; intelligence, development of; post-biological development; and specific developmental stages

discipline, 45–46

dis-identification, 19, 22–23

divorce rate, 39

dolphins, 11

Donchin, Emmanuel, 214

Dream Time, xx, 69–71, 207

dreams/dreaming, 11, 63, 93, 203

analogy and, 53, 57

fifth chakra and, 167

formal operations and, 83–84

in large groups, 90–91

lucid, 6, 88–90, 205

mid-brain and, 89

night terrors, 54, 83

and scientific discovery, 118

sexual arousal during, 155

separation in, 54–56, 202

threefold brain and, 16–17

dualistic thinking, 81, 205

dwarfism, 201–2

Eagle’s Gift, The (Castaneda), 216

Eberhart, Richard, vii

Eccles, Sir John, 124, 212

Eckhart, Johannes, 141, 168

Eddington, Arthur, 102

ego/ego awareness:

and absolute, 162

in attachment-pair struggles, 154

autonomy of, 7, 52, 133–35, 139–40

and concrete operations, 78

and formal operations, 83–84

development of, 18–19, 22–23

distinguished from thought, 210

dis-identifications by, 19, 22–23

enculturation and, 128, 132

integrity and, 6, 7, 134–35, 139–40

need for abolition of, 139

and new brain, 52, 55

object-constancy and, 43–45

vs. Self, 127

during sleep/dreaming, 16–17

social, shift to, 55–56, 72

subtle system and, 108–12, 212

successful bonding and, 34

in unbonded person, 37, 38

ego-personality, 208–9

egocentric stage, 42

Einstein, Albert, 94, 97, 102

Eliade, Mircea, xvi, xvii

enculturation, 128, 130–33, 138, 141, 162

see also culture

energy, 93–106

Bohm on, 100–102, 104

consciousness as, 101–4

matter and, 93–94, 96, 97

wave-particle duality and, 94–99, 102–4

yogic teaching on, 99–100

see also Kundalini Shakti

energy of attention, 16–17, 20, 42

entrainment, definition of, 42

Epstein, Herman, 204

erection, penile, 155–57

Eskimos, 68–69

Espagnat, Bernard d’, 205

esthetics, 18, 52, 84, 110

“Eureka!” experience, xx, 117–19

evolution, 205

technology and, 142

existence, establishment of, 6

explicate order, 101, 110, 119–20, 184, 208, 209

Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg (Pearce), 180

extrasensory experiences:

children and, 67–68

see also paranormal phenomena

Fabry-Perot Interferometer, 76

faith vs. belief, 132

Feldenkreis movement, 86

Ferguson, Marilyn, xix, 140

Fermi, Enrico, 94

Feuerstein, Reuven, 197

fields of energy, 94–98, 103

fire-walking, xvi, xx, 79–82, 92–93, 164, 204

first milk (colostrum), 30, 199

fontanels, xxi–xxii

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 153

Forest People, The (Turnbull), 24

formal operations, 83–85

three categories of, 85

formative creation, xix

Freud, Sigmund, 128

Further Dialogues of the Buddha, xvii

Gallwey, Tim, 85, 137, 205

Gardner, Howard, 203

Gardner, Lytt, 201–2

Ge tribes, 180

Geller, Uri, 77

Gnostics, xvi–xvii, 146, 158, 179

God, 178, 196

seventh chakra and, 169

sixth chakra and, 168

young love and, 149, 150

God-man relationship, 67–68

Gospel of Thomas, xvii

Gould, Stephen Jay, 205

Graves, Dan, 203

Gray, William, 198, 213

growth spurts, 73

Guatemala, infant care in, 24

Guru Chakra (sixth chakra), 146, 168, 169, 193

Guru Principle, 192, 193, 195, 196

Gurudev (Nityananda), 139, 141, 169, 177, 189–92, 195, 196

Gurumayi (Chidvilasananda), 139, 141, 169, 178, 189–92, 195, 196, 216

gurus, 176–93, 213

Haich, Elisabeth, 215

Harman, Willis, 80

Hasted, John, 204

hearing:

activation of, at birth, 30

see also sensory-motor system; sound

heart:

chakra of, 146, 148–51, 157, 164–67, 169

mid-brain and, 12–13, 25, 26, 32, 37, 39

mother’s, and newborn, 30, 32–33, 34, 200

heartbeat, recorded, 32, 127, 200

Heisenberg, Werner, 214–15

helplessness of human infant, 42

Hemingway, Ernest, 153

hemispheres of brain, 13, 14, 17–19, 21, 59–60, 63, 72–74, 77, 78, 86, 89

Herrigel, Eugen, 170–72, 183

Hesse, Hermann, 202

Hilgard, Ernest, 109

holonomic movement (“Holomovement”), xix, 100–102, 105, 119–20, 122, 143, 194

holophonic sound, 198, 206

hormones, baby’s, during delivery, 27–28, 33, 36, 199

hospital births, 35–40, 63, 74, 127, 159

Housman, A. E., 149, 150

Houston, Jean, 88

hypnagogic imagery, 11, 213

hypnosis, mutual, 88–91, 167

idiot-savants, 207–8

illusion(s), 81, 88, 100, 213–14

imagery, 92

Creation as, 121

hypnagogic, 11, 213

internal, sharing of, 59

in mutual hypnosis, 89–91

new brain and, 116, 213

in sports psychology, 85–86

“reality” as, 206

television and, 63–66

threefold brain and, 11–20, 52–53, 57

transference of, see intuitive stage

imagination, definition of, 14

implicate order, 101, 110, 119–20, 184, 208–10

India, 79, 182, 202

Indian rope trick, 86–88, 93

Inner Game of Tennis, The (Gallwey), 85, 137, 205

inner/outer dualism, 205

insight-intelligence, 102, 117, 119, 124, 144, 168, 171

Institute of Noetic Sciences, 80

Intact Educational Foundation, 201

intellect, 84–85, 91, 137, 138, 179, 205, 214

intelligence, development of, 47

breastfeeding and, 31, 199

model-blueprint (stimulus-response) dynamic in, 2–5

television vs., 65

see also brain; intellect; and specific developmental stages

intuitive stage, 9, 19, 54–74, 77, 92

analogical language and, 57–61, 86

brain development and, 71–74

and extrasensory abilities, 67–68

perfect unity of, 19, 61, 70, 78

play in, 61–63, 74

rites of passage and, 70–71

television and, 63–66

Ireland, 215

Jahn, Robert, 76, 80

James, William, 49

Jampolsky, Gerald, 68

Jensen, Adolf A., 180, 202

Jesus Christ, xvi–xvii, 131, 133, 141, 164, 165, 172–74, 179, 184, 190, 191, 195–96, 215

John, Saint, 190

John of the Cross, Saint, 141

Jones, Blurton, 200

Josephson, Brian, 80

Journey to Ixtlan (Castaneda), 195

Journeys out of the Body (Monroe), 111

Jung, Carl Gustav, 58, 67, 143, 202

Kafatos, Minas, xix, 96, 206

Kamiya, Joe, 212

Kataragama (god), 79

Katz, Richard, 215

Kekulé, August, xx, 118, 120

Kierkegaard, Søren, 67, 146

Koestler, Arthur, 205

Krishnamurti, 213

Kundalini Shakti, xx, 144–59, 213

attachment behavior and, 151–54, 156–57

as developmental process, 144–51, 154

and Self, 144, 145, 149, 151, 156, 162, 173

and sensory modes, 161–63

and Shaktipat, 176–77

and third chakra, 164–66

¡ Kung, xx

Laboratory for Cognitive Psychophysiology, 214

lalling, 47–48, 51

Langer, Susanne K.., 47, 142, 194

language, 2–4, 15, 19, 44, 47–61, 74, 113

analogical, 19, 53, 57–61, 72, 77, 86

brain hemispheres and, 72, 73, 86

concrete, 47–70, 86

cycle of competence and, 50–53, 55, 57

formal operations and, 84, 86

mid-brain and, 15, 19, 47

phonemes, 3, 47, 86, 94–95, 113

Laski, Margharita, 119

LaVoilette, Paul A., 137, 198

learning, 85, 90

bonding vs. attachment and, 26–27

discipline and, 45–46

field effect and, 208

and formal operations, 85

play and, 62, 74

stage-specific nature of, 41

see also cycle of competence

left hemisphere, 72–74, 77, 78

see also hemispheres of brain

Lehrs, Ernst, 214–15

Leningrad, University of, 80

Leonard, George, 183

light, perception of, 10–11

light waves, 206

local vs. non-local states, xvi, xvii, 105, 170–71

see also post-biological development

logical thinking, analogy and, 57–61, 72

lokas, 167

Lorber, John, 212, 213

love:

chakras and, 148–52, 167

cultural counterfeit of, 127–28

pair-bond, 148–50, 152, 154

Lubicz, Schwaller de, 158, 215

lucid dreaming, 6, 88–90, 205

Ma, Ananda Mayi, 163–64

MacKellar, Jean, 24

MacLean, Paul, xix, xxi, 136–37, 200, 213, 214

Magical Child (Pearce), xiv–xv, xx, xxii, 8, 24, 35, 174, 205

Mander, Jerry, 203

Manning, Mathew, 78–80

Martin, Hugh, 205, 206

Masonic Order, 215

Massie, Henry, 200

mastodons, 156–57

mathematical symbols, 203

matter, energy and, 93–94, 96, 97

Maya (inner play of mind), 81, 100, 213

mechanistic thinking, see behaviorism

meditation, 91, 93, 107, 108, 123–25

correct place of, 187

ecstasy in, 153

exploring senses through, 161–63

imagery in, 11

as selfish activity, 129

sexual arousal during, 155–56

Siddha, 161

and third chakra, 164–65

melanin, 10–11, 33, 47, 200

memory, location of, 109

menarche, premature, 8

metal-bending, 75–78, 81, 91–93, 204

metaphor, 119

definition of, 57

in play, 2–3, 61–63

in storytelling, 59–60, 203

mid-brain (old mammalian brain), 11–20, 85, 89, 90

and bonding, 24–25, 31–32, 34, 37, 74

connections of, with other brains, 14, 72, 77

damage to, 74

definition of, 11–13

and dreaming, 89

and heart, 12–13, 25, 26, 32, 37, 39

and language, 15, 19, 47

mediating function of, 14–15, 19, 57

and metaphoric capacity, 59–60, 63, 119, 203

and mutual hypnosis, 89–90

and object-constancy, 43–44

reticular formation in, 29, 31, 37

and sense of smell, 31

and shift to logical operations, 59–61

and sleep, 16

and subtle system, 71, 101, 110, 112, 204

technology and, 39

Milne, A. A., 58, 202

mind, 19, 21, 83–85, 91, 135

concrete operations and, 77, 78

as independent of brain, 109, 117

as mediation between brain and Self, 117

and possibility, 104

unconscious, 214

see also ego/ego awareness; spirit

minorities, hospital births and, 35–36, 200

models (blueprints), 121

animals and, 113–14

in biological development, 1–5, 22, 41, 135

chakras as, 145–54

concrete operations and, 77–78, 81–82

cultural, 7–8, 128–29, 133

divine play and, 74

Dream Time and, 70

in language acquisition, 2–3, 47, 49, 81, 113

new brain and, 114–15

parents as, and child’s will, 45–46

in post-biological development, 1–2, 5–9, 22, 23

and Self, 123

Modern Meat (Schell), 198

Monroe, Robert, 75, 78, 107, 111, 167, 211, 212

Monroe Institute of Applied Science, 75–76, 78, 204, 211

mother-child relationship, 24, 25

see also bonding

movies, 65

Mowatt, Farley, 68–69

Muktananda, Baba, 90, 107–8, 123, 139, 141, 161, 163, 165–68, 173–74, 177, 184–92, 195, 198

multiple personality, 140

musical ability, 68

mutual hypnosis, 88–91, 167

Nada sounds, 161–63, 168, 177

Nadeau, Robert, xix, 96

Nag Hammid codices, xvi–xvii

National Geographic magazine, 80

near-death experiences, xvii–xviii, 111, 167

neocortex, see new brain

neo-mammalian brain, see new brain

Nestikare dancing, 79

neurolinguistic programming, xvi, 79, 85, 86

Never Cry Wolf (Mowatt), 68–69

new brain (neo-mammalian brain; neocortex), 11–20, 85, 92, 112, 114–16

definition of, 11–13

degree of use of, 136–37

development of, 13–14, 18–19, 71–74

hemispheres of, 13, 14, 17–19, 21, 59–60, 63, 72–74, 77, 78, 86, 89, 199

and language, 47

and logical thought, 57

need for, 212, 213

and post-biological development, 13, 137–39, 186

and sleep, 16

Newton, Isaac, 93–94, 102

night terrors, 54, 83

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 166

Nityananda, see Gurudev

Nityananda, Bhagavan, 165–66, 192

non-localized reality, 105, 213, 170–71, 185, 186, 189

definition of, xvi, xvii

see also post-biological development

“not-doing,” 183–84

nuclear weapons, see weapons production

nursing, see breastfeeding

nursing position, universal, 28, 30, 31, 33

object-constancy, 43–45, 48, 50, 200, 202

“object-dependent children,” 203

objectivity, see mind

old brain (reptilian brain), 11–20, 26, 85, 95, 96, 100, 112

and bonding, 31–34, 37

and concrete images, 57

definition of, 11, 12

development of, 18–19

ego awareness and, 56

and language, 47

and movement of objects at a distance, 79

and object-constancy, 44

as physical system, 71, 204

reticular formation of, 28–29, 33

single entrainment and, 43

and sleep, 16, 17

unblinking stare of infant and, 200

old mammalian brain, see mid-brain

ontogeny/phylogeny, 10

out-of-body experiences, 107–9, 111, 124, 160–61, 167

outer/inner dualism, 205

oxygen deprivation at birth, 35–37

pair bond, 148–50, 152, 154

paranormal phenomena, xvi, 75–82

extrasensory experiences of children, 67–68

fire-walking, xvi, xx, 79–82, 92–93, 204

importance of, 81–82, 205

Indian rope trick, 86–88, 93

metal-bending, 75–78, 81, 91–93, 204

particles:

bonding of, 98–99, 177

see also wave-particle dilemma

Pearse, Innes H., 197

Penfield, Wilder, 109, 212

phantom limb pain, 109–10, 112, 209

phonemes, 3, 47, 86, 94–95, 113

phylogeny/ontogeny, 10

Piaget, Jean, xvi, xvii, xix, 76, 78, 83, 168, 197, 202, 204

pineal gland, 10

Planck, Max, 97

Planck’s Constant, 97, 99

play, 20, 96

creation and, 5

divine, 74

illusion as, 81, 100, 213

in intuitive stage, 61–63, 74

television vs., 63–66

Podolsky (mathematician), 97

Poincaré, Henri, 94, 102

pointing in infancy, 48, 49, 202

poltergeists, 82, 204

Polynesia, 79

possibility, 93, 97, 101, 103

non-localized reality as, xvi, xvii

see also post-biological development; spirit

post-biological development, xiii–xxii, 73, 105, 130, 135, 137–42, 212

biological development and, xiv–xv, xvii, xxii, 1, 5–9, 21–23, 40

chakras as blueprint for, 145–54

esoteric nature of, xvi–xvii

model-blueprint dynamic in, 1–2, 5–9, 22, 23

new brain and, 137–38

and path to Self, 170–75

return of awareness to causal fields in, 160–69

teacher’s role in, 176–82

threefold brain and, 13, 17

see also Self; spirit; yogic teachings

Potter, Beatrix, 202

practice-and-variation stage, 50–53, 55, 62, 73–74

pregnancy:

in children, 8

perfect, xviii

see also birth

pre-logical operations, xiii, xxii, 20–21, 57, 76–77, 126

language in, 48

see also intuitive stage

Prem, Krishna, 216

Prigogine, Ilya, 216

promiscuity, 154

psyche, see subtle system

psychedelic drugs, 162

psychics, 167, 207–8

puberty, see adolescence

quantum physics, xv, xvi, 94–99, 102–4, 117, 170–71, 205, 206

radio, 65

Ramakrishna, 141

Ramana Maharishi, 141

randomness, 115

rapid eye movements (REMs), 16–17

Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich, 166

reincarnation, 209

reptilian brain, see old brain

reticular formation, 28–29, 31, 33, 37

reversibility, 21, 160–69

Rife, D. C., 207

right hemisphere, 59–60, 63, 72–74, 86, 89

see also hemispheres of brain

rites of passage, 70–71

Rosen (mathematician), 97

roughing-in stage, 50, 51, 55

saints, 121–23

Salk Institute (La Jolla, California), 144

samskara, 209, 211, 214

sanction, 49

Sanders, Louis, 95

Sannella, Lee, 144, 146, 202

Sehell, Orville, 198

schools:

failure of, xiii, 2

and intuitive stage, 73, 74

violence in, 39, 201

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 166

self, 7

as conceptual structure, 6

and creative process, 120

and emergence of logic, 57

as emotion/physical body, 18–19, 52

as goal of development, 74

object-constancy and, 45

Self and, 105–6

see also ego/ego awareness

Self, 100, 104–6, 117, 139, 206, 209–11

bonding and, 127

as creation itself, 178, 193

experience of, 187–88

Kundalini and, 144, 145, 149, 151, 156, 162, 173

path to, 120–25, 132–33, 170–75, 178, 179

projected, 180–81

self and, 105–6

subtle body and, 108, 112, 212

third chakra and, 165

union with, 135, 141

self-pity, 127

Selye, Hans, 118

sensory exploration, 161–63

sensory-motor system, 92–93, 95

in acquisition of language, 2–4, 47, 48

activation of, in normal birth, 28–35

arrested development at level of, 63, 65, 127, 140, 141

technological birth and, 37–38

see also old brain

sentiment vs. love, 127

Serpent in the Sky (West), 215

Serrano, Miguel, 54, 202

Sexuality, xiii–xiv

attachment behavior and, 141, 151–54, 156–57

cultural counterfeit of, 127–28

genital, 150

Kundalini and, 144–59

premature, 8, 198

“repression” of, 152

in subtle dream state, 161

young love and, 148–50

Shakti, 143–44, 146, 148, 151, 154–56, 184, 192, 204

see also Kundalini Shakti

Shaktipat, 165–66, 176–78, 184, 192

shamans, 68–69

Sheldrake, Rupert, xix, 102, 109, 119–20, 171, 197, 206–8, 213

Shields, Eloise, 68

Shiva, 143, 148, 169

“Shropshire Lad, A” (Housman), 149

sight, 11

see also imagery; vision

Siddha Loka, 168

Siddha Yoga, xi, 161, 184–95

Silent Pulse, The (Leonard), 183

Simeon, Saint, 181–82

sleep:

threefold brain system and, 16–17

see also dreams/dreaming

smell, sense of, 31

smiling in infant, 30, 36, 200–201

Snyder, L. H., 207

social bonding/attachment, see attachment

vs. bonding; culture sorting-out stage, 50, 51, 53, 55

soul, see subtle system

sound, open category of, 161–63

South America, 79

Soviet Union, ESP research in, 80

speech, see language

Sperry, Roger, 198, 212

Sphinx of Giza, 158–59

spirit, xx, 23, 121, 125

awakening of, 133

definition of, 21

development of, see post-biological development

enculturation and, 132

Spitz, Rene, 200–201

sports psychology, 85–86, 137, 155, 214

Sri Lanka, fire-walking in, 79–80, 204

Steiner, Rudolph, 212–13

Stevenson, Ian, 209

stochastic process, 174, 212, 216

storytelling, 57–61, 73, 85–86, 96, 202

Strauch, Ralph, 86, 155, 214

subtle system, 90, 99, 101, 107–15, 208–10

brain surgery and, 109, 212

exploring five senses in, 160–63

Kundalini, 144–46

mid-brain and, 71, 101, 110, 112, 204

out-of-body experiences and, 107–9, 111

Sufism, 108, 145, 183, 184, 215

Systematics (Tillich), 67

Tantra disciplines, 151

Tart, Charles, 88–91, 167, 212

taste, open category of, 162–63

teacher, role of, 176–93

Teachings of Don Juan, The (Castaneda), 216

technology, xix, 7–8, 91, 141–42

and childbirth, 35–40, 63, 74, 127, 159

telepathy, 68

television, 63–66, 74, 203

theophany, 180

Tillich, Paul, 67

Tinbergen, Nikos, 200

touch:

activation of, at birth, 31, 38

open category of, 163

Shaktipat, 165–66, 176–78, 184, 192

Towbin, Abraham, 200

trance, 88–91

Turnbull, Colin, 24

Tweedie, Irina, 145, 215

Uganda, infant care in, 24

umbilical cord, 28, 35–36

unconscious mental activity, 214

universal nursing position, 28, 30, 31, 33

variation stage, see practice-and-variation stage

Vasconcellos, John, 201

video games, 65

Vietnam War, 128

vision:

activation of, at birth, 30, 36

human face and, 114

open category of, 161, 162

Vivekananda, 195

Vygotsky, L. S., 49, 202

wave-particle dilemma, xv, 94–99, 102–4, 207, 209–11

weapons production, xviii, 63, 65, 94, 131, 142, 179, 206

West, John Anthony, 142, 215

whales, 11

Whitehead, Alfred North, 67

Whitman, Walt, 163

Whittlestone, W. G., 200

Wickes, Frances, 58

Wiener, Rosemary, 201

Wilber, Ken, 206

will, 18, 44–46, 52, 140, 193

of God, 184, 189

as third chakra, 146, 154, 164–66

Williamson, G., 197

Wolfe, Thomas, xiii, 151

wolves, 68–69

Woodroffe, John, 215

world, as conceptual structure, 6

Yeats, William Butler, 157

Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Eliade), xvi, xvii

Yogananda, 141, 195

yogic teachings, xvi, xvii, xix, 90, 206–7, 212

on creation/creativity, 143–44

on dreaming, 16

on four body-worlds, 99–100

on heart, 198

on “not-doing,” 183–84

on samskara, 209, 211, 214

on Self, 100, 104–6, 117, 206, 209–11

Siddha Yoga Foundation, xi, 161, 184–95

on subtle system, 107–8, 116, 208–9

see also chakras; Kundalini Shakti; Shakti

Yu, Hu Mon, 203

Zajonc, Robert, 214

Zen, 108, 164, 170–72, 177, 183, 186–87, 192, 212

Zuccarelli, Hugo, 198, 206