Table of Contents
Author's Opening Remarks: How to Read This Book 17
Prelude: Initial Consultation and Considerations 27
First Installment: This Must Be a Hallucination 41
First Appointment: What Einstein Saw Inside His Head 49
Second Installment: The Intelligence of This Hallucination 63
Second Appointment: Smoke That Rises to Heaven 71
First Interlude: A "Growing Concern" 83
Third Installment: Turning the Scheme of Evolution on Its Head 87
Third Appointment: A Romantic Notion of the Unconscious 101
Fourth Installment: The Boldest Interpretation of the Apocalypse 113
Fourth Appointment: Shattering Old Containers of Meaning 125
Second Interlude: Watching Your Child Suffer 141
Fifth Installment: Levels of Evolution? 143
Fifth Appointment: A Renaissance Soul 151
Sixth Appointment: The Famous Shadow 163
Seventh Appointment: The Burning Center 175
Postlude: A Capacity We All Possess 203
Coda 217
Appendix I How to Do Active Imagination 219
Appendix II A Bibliographic Note 225
Acknowledgments 227