Table of Contents
Foreword Deepak Chopra xvii
Preface xxiii
Comment Neale Donald Walsch xxiii
Part I Quantum Science and the Re-Assessment of the Spiritual Experience
The Quantum World 3
The Coherence of the Explicate Order 8
Roots of the Idea of In-Formation by the Kosmos 12
The Nature of Evolution and the Meaning of Spiritual Experience 16
The Trace of the Holotropic Attractor in Spiritual Experience 22
Part II Connecting to the Holotropic Quantum Universe
Holotropic Developments in Society 27
Developing Holotropism in Ourselves 34
Part III A Bouquet of Spiritual Experiences
Lawrence Bloom 48
Darla Boone 52
Nicolya Christi 58
Federico Faggin 66
Adrienne Feller 72
Guido Ferrari 76
Jane Goodall 82
Jean Houston 91
Barbara Marx Hubbard 98
Christopher Laszlo 104
Lynne McTaggart 109
James O'Dea 117
Frederique Pichard 122
Pierre Pradervand 131
Dean Radin 137
Maria Sági 141
Masami Saionji 149
Gary Schwartz 157
Addendum: Ervin Laszlo 171
Notes on the Contributors 175
Spiritual Experiences: The Message and the Meaning 183
The Message 183
The Meaning 190
Part IV Essential Lessons and Fundamental Tasks
Three Big Bangs Behind Us, the Fourth Ahead: Looking Back to See Forward 195
The Way Forward 201
Annex: Eastern Perspectives
(I) Reconnecting to The Source in the Mirror of Chinese Culture by Frederick Chavalit Tsao 203
(II) The Tao Experience of The Source by Zhi-Gang Sha 214
Appendix: Confirmatory Evidence of Duck (and Associated Geese) Synchronicities by Gary Schwartz 223
Acknowledgments 235
Index 239