Introduction xi
PART ONE: INTEGRATING PSYCHOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY
Introduction 3
1. Between Heaven and Earth: Principles of Inner Work 11
2. Personality: Path or Pathology? 22
3. Ego Strength and Egolessness 35
4. The Play of the Mind: Form, Emptiness, and Beyond 48
5. Meditation and the Unconscious 58
6. Psychological Space 77
7. The Unfolding of Experience 87
8. Reflection and Presence: The Dialectic of Awakening 98
PART TWO: PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A SPIRITUAL CONTEXT
Introduction 133
9. The Healing Power of Unconditional Presence 137
10. Vulnerability, Power, and the Healing Relationship 148
11. Psychotherapy as a Practice of Love 163
12. Depression as a Loss of Heart 172
13. Making Friends with Emotion 181
14. Embodying Your Realization: Psychological Work in the Service of Spiritual Development 193
PART THREE: THE AWAKENING POWER OF RELATIONSHIP
Introduction 229
15. Intimate Relationship as Transformative Path 233
16. Dancing on the Razor's Edge 241
17. Refining the Gold 246
18. Love, Conditional and Unconditional 250
19. Passion as Path 258
20. Spiritual Authority, Genuine and Counterfeit 267
21. Conscious Love and Sacred Community 282
Notes 293
Glossary 299
Sources 309
Bibliography 313
Acknowledgments and Credits 319
Index 321
About the Author 331
