Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv

PART ONE: Soul
1. Soul or Self 3
2. Organ of Experience 15
3. Organism of Consciousness 26

PART TWO: Properties and Functions of the Soul
4. Noesis 45
5. Potential 63
6. Morphing Dynamism 76
7. Impressionability of Soul 94
8. Living Presence 108

PART THREE: Essence and Soul Development
9. Soul and Essence 131
10. Animal Soul 141
11. Normal Development of the Soul 151
12. Ego Development of the Soul 164
13. Liberating the Soul 185
14. Primitive Structures of the Soul 200

PART FOUR: The Inner Journey of the Soul
15. The Inner Journey 221
16. True Nature 247

PART FIVE: Dimensions of True Nature
17. Divine Love and Light 271
18. Being and Knowledge 292
19. Awareness and the Nonconceptual 324
20. Logos and Creative Dynamism 348
21. The Absolute and Emptiness 376

PART SIX: Actualization of Reality
22. The Journey of Descent 413
23. Reality 441
24. Separation of Soul, God, and World 459

Epilogue 481

Appendix A. Western Concepts of Soul 483
Appendix B. Eastern Concepts of Soul 495
Appendix C. Soul in Sufism 517
Appendix D. Essence in Childhood Experience 529
Appendix E. Soul as Autopoietic System 553
Appendix F. Consciousness Research 561
Appendix G. Logoi of Teachings 567

Notes 583
References 697
Index 705