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
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
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
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
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