About This Book vii

The Divine Play 1
The Message of the Mystics 3
What Is Meditation? 5
The Perennial Philosophy 7
The Transpersonal 9
The Nondual Vision 12
Of Physicists and Mystics 16
The Real Self 21
"I-I" 27
Egolessness 31
The Witness Exercise 36
Levels of Consciousness 41
Constant Consciousness 44
The Great Chain of Being 49
Holons and Hierarchy 55
Reality Is Made of Holons 61
The Spectrum of Consciousness 65
The Centaur 73
Healing the Bodymind Split 75
Experiential, Intellectual, and Spiritual 85
The Pre/Trans Fallacy 88
Rationality Means Perspective 92
The Romantic View 95
The Big Three: I, We, and It 101
The Integral Approach 102
Integral Practice 105
Completing the Great Chain 108
Waves and Streams in Consciousness 115
Buddhism and the Stages of Development 123
One Hand Clapping 128
You Are Already Aware 131
One Taste 135
Translation versus Transformation 140
Contemplating Art 144
Was Carl Jung a Mystic? 147
The Real Archetypes 150
Academic Religion 152
The Value of Polemics 153
Sleep, Dreams, and Dreamless Sleep 156
The Meaning of Illness 162
The Moment of Death 170
The Ultimate Spiritual Test 172
Spiritual Unfolding 176
An Ounce of Laughter 185
Just This 186

Books by Ken Wilber: An Annotated List 187
Index 193