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Index
Cover Page
Praise for How Plato and Pythagoras Can Save Your Life
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Greece and its colonies
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: My Personal Odyssey
Chapter 1: Tripping the Night Fantastic
Exercise 1 : Who—and What—Am I?
Chapter 2: The Journey Home
Exercise 2 : Take Me to the River
Part Two: The Being Human
Chapter 3: White Crows: Mystics, Savants, and Other Harbingers of Human Potential
Exercise 3 : Mystic Mind (or How to Crack Open the Cranium)
Chapter 4: Wake Up! Greek Philosophy Breaks the Trance
Chapter 5: The Ultimate Cage Match: Philosophy, Science, and Religion (or, Togas, Bibles, and Microscopes: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?)
Chapter 6: Homo Anxious: I Think, Therefore I Worry
Chapter 7: Newsflash: Science Declares God Is Dead—But Can't Prove It! (or The Scientific Atheism Fallacy)
Exercise 4 : Mindfulness Walk: Being Without Thinking
Chapter 8: Why Philosophy Matters
Exercise 5 : Am I a Neuron in the Mind of God?
Part Three: Reality Bites
Chapter 9: The Physical World: The Tip of the Reality Iceberg
Exercise 6 : More to Reality Than Meets the Eye
Chapter 10: Real Deal Reality: Beyond Sense and Beyond Reason
Exercise 7 : Beyond Logic: Riddles and Paradoxes
Part Four: Pythagoras, the Big Beat, and Cosmic Consciousness
Chapter 11: Pythagoras Squared: Who Was This Mystic Mathemagician?
Chronological Chart of Sources for Pythagoras
Exercise 8 : Infinity: The Ultimate Mind Trip
Chapter 12: Good Vibrations: Pythagoras and the Big Beat
Exercise 9 : The Cosmic Symphony: Music from the Universal Orchestra
Part Five: Escaping Plato's Cave
Chapter 13: Plato's Retreat—from the Material World
Exercise 10 : The Universe as One Big Thought
Chapter 14: On the Nature of Change: The More Things Change . . .
Exercise 11 : Change: The Great Illusion
Chapter 15: Death: The New Birth
Exercise 12 : Incubation (or How Death Can Transform Your Life)
Part Six: Yes, But . . . What Does It All Mean?
Chapter 16: New Science and Old Wisdom
Chapter 17: Musings From My Dissertation
Chapter 18: Some Final Thoughts
References
Works Cited
Additional References
Suggested Reading
To Our Readers
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