Introduction and Acknowledgments ix

Chapter One: Intimacy 1
Chapter Two: The Personal Trap 9
Chapter Three: The Impersonal 21
Chapter Four: Objective Sorrow 33
Chapter Five: End of the World 43
Chapter Six: The Real World 49
Chapter Seven: The Absolute 59
Chapter Eight: Mystical Poverty 67
Chapter Nine: The Beloved 77
Chapter Ten: Ripening of the Soul 87
Chapter Eleven: The Mystical Marriage 97
Chapter Twelve: Coemergence 107
Chapter Thirteen: Absolute Action 117
Chapter Fourteen: Life and the Deathless 125