| Preface | ix |
| I | The Epic of Evolution | |
| 1 | It's a New Story | 3 |
| 2 | The Evolving Universe | 13 |
| 3 | An Unbroken Wholeness | 48 |
| 4 | "The Present Is the Only Thing That Has No End" | 63 |
| II | The Contemplative Tradition of the West | |
| 5 | Contemplation: Essential to the Full Human Life | 73 |
| 6 | The Breakthrough Experience | 91 |
| 7 | The Unitive Life, Unitive Episodes and Gestures | 111 |
| III | The Foundations of Integration | |
| 8 | The Generative Cosmos | 131 |
| 9 | We Have Found No Primal Dust | 148 |
| 10 | Complex, Centered Beings within the Unfolding Whole | 162 |
| 11 | The Depth of Human Belonging | 176 |
| 12 | Soul Unfolds in the Evolving Universe | 195 |
| 13 | 'All at Onceness': An Incarnational Worldview | 216 |
| IV | The Divided Soul | |
| 14 | The Awakening of Soul in the Infant | 241 |
| 15 | The Ego Claims Center Stage | 256 |
| 16 | Breaking the Internal Bonds to Mother and Earth | 269 |
| V | The Contemplative Journey and its Fruition | |
| 17 | The Active Universe Within: Sources of Healing and Hope | 299 |
| 18 | "God Cannot Resist a Prepared Soul" | 325 |
| 19 | Knowings That Change Consciousness: Entrance into the Unitive Life | 346 |
| 20 | The Active and Fruitful Life | 362 |
| Bibliography | 383 |
| Index | 399 |
