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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
A Note to the Reader
Introduction
SYSTOLE
OF NATURE AND THE HEART
Coast Lines
The Subjectivity of Science
Fractals, Nonlinearity, and Deterministic Chaos
Molecular Self-Organization
Of Clowns and Unicycles
The Nonlinear Dynamics of Living Organisms
Cells and Electromagnetic Waves
Stochastic Resonance
Magnetic Fields
The Pumping Heart
The Nonpumping Heart
The Heart As Endocrine Gland
The Central Nervous System Heart
The Electromagnetic Heart
Internal and External Electromagnetic Fields
Heart Coherence
Heart-Brain Entrainment
Impacts on Health and Disease
Heart Communication With the External World
Beyond People
Prologue to Part One
Section One: Nature
The Nonlinearity of Nature
The Self-Organization of Life
The Energetics of Life
Section Two: The Hear
The Physical Heart: The Heart as an Organ of the Body
The Emotional Heart: The Heart as an Organ of Perception and Communication
The Spiritual Heart: Aisthesis
DIASTOLE
GATHERING KNOWLEDGE FROM THE HEART OF THE WORLD
Prologue to Part Two
Section One: Veriditas
The Door into Nature
The Necessity for Acuity of Perception
Feeling with the Heart
Section Two: The Taste of Wild Water
Gathering Knowledge from the Heart of the World
The Pregnant Point and the Mundus Imaginalis
Section Three: The Fruitful Darkness
Depth Diagnosis and the Healing of Human Disease
Interlude
The Importance of Rigorous Self-Examination and the Necessity for Moral Development
Section Four: Grains of Sand from Another Shore
Reading the Text of the World: The Geography of Meaning and the Making of the Soul
Epilogue
Appendix: Exercises for Refining the Heart as an Organ of Perception
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography with Commentary: The Wisdom of the Earth Poets
Also by Stephen Harrad Buhner
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
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