List of Figures viii
Preface to the Second Edition, Revised ix
Introduction 3

BOOK ONE
1. The Web of Life 11
2. The Pattern That Connects 40
3. Individual and Social 86
4. A View from Within 115
5. The Emergence of Human Nature 158
6. Magic, Mythic, and Beyond 210
7. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature 262
8. The Depths of the Divine 287

BOOK TWO
9. The Way Up Is the Way Down 329
10. This-Worldly, Otherworldly 355
11. Brave New World 380
12. The Collapse of the Kosmos 419
13. The Dominance of the Descenders 478
14. The Unpacking of God 520

Notes 553
References 791
Index 827