Preface: Towards a New Conception of the Nature of Matter

Part One

1. Our Present Picture of the Universe

2. Clues From the History of Art

3. The Existence of an "I"

4. The Ten Thousand Beings

5. The Practical Matter of Forging a Living Center

Mid-Book Appendix: Recapitulation of the Argument

Part Two

6. The Blazing One

7. Color and Inner Light

8. The Goal of Tears

9. Making Wholeness Heals the Maker

10. Pleasing Yourself

11. The Face of God

Conclusion to the Four Books

A Modified Picture of the Universe

Epilogue: Empirical Certainty and Enduring Doubt