BOOK ONE: The Nature of the Pearl Beyond Price
Part I: The Personal Essence 5
Chapter 1: The Man of Spirit and the Man of the World 7
Chapter 2: Being and Ego 20
Part II: The Discovery of Personal Essence 33
Chapter 3: Autonomy 37
Chapter 4: Beingness 50
Chapter 5: The Personal Element 70
Chapter 6: Contact 81
Part III: The Essential Person 91
Chapter 7: Personal Essence and the Man of the World 94
Chapter 8: Personal Essence in Legends and Fairy Tales 99
Chapter 9: Personal Essence and the Man of Spirit 109
Chapter 10: Personal Essence in Spiritual Traditions 115
Part IV: Personal Essence and Ego Development 127
Chapter 11: Maturity, Ego and Personal Essence 131
Maturity and the Secondary Autonomy of Ego 133
Identification and Defense 136
Chapter 12: Being and Functioning 144
Integration and Absorption of Experience 146
Chapter 13: Personal Essence and Object Relations Theory 153
Chapter 14: The Metabolism of Experience 162
Chapter 15: Personal Essence and Ego Functions 169
BOOK TWO: The Realization of the Pearl Beyond Price 179
Part I: Inner Evolution 179
Chapter 16: Enlightenment 182
Chapter 17: The Diamond Approach 186
Part II: Personal Essence and the Process of Separation-Individuation 199
Chapter 18: Separation 201
Chapter 19: Merging 223
Chapter 20: Negative Merging 245
Chapter 21: Identity 260
Chapter 22: Personalization 281
Chapter 23: Rapprochement 286
Chapter 24: Autonomic Regulation 294
The Will Essence 299
Part III: Personal Essence and Essential Aspects 309
Chapter 25: The Mother Aspects of Essence 319
Chapter 26: The Father Aspects of Essence 327
BOOK THREE: The Development of the Pearl Beyond Price
Part I: Identity: Ego versus Being 339
Chapter 27: The Personalization of Essence 341
Chapter 28: The Actualization of Being 348
Cultural Values 352
Part II: The Objective Dimensions of Essence 355
Chapter 29: Being and Ego Deficiency 358
Chapter 30: Origins of Ego Deficiency 369
Chapter 31: Resolution of Ego Deficiency 378
Chapter 32: The Complete Person 388
Chapter 33: Personal Essence and Ego Boundaries 392
Chapter 34: Aloneness 411
Part III: The Formless Dimensions of Being 419
Chapter 35: The Impersonal versus the Personal 422
Chapter 36: Cosmic Consciousness and Individuation 430
Universal Love and Ego Identity 438
Chapter 37: Oneness and the Person 445
Transcendence and Embodiment 457
Chapter 38: Nonconceptual Reality and Functioning 460
Absence 461
The Nameless 465
The Absolute 468
Part IV: Universal Man 473
Chapter 39: The Diamond Pearl 474
Chapter 40: Epilogue 483
Appendix: Nomenclature 485
References 487
Index 493
