The Alchemy of Possibility

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-06-01
Publisher(s): James Wanless
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Summary

This book invites readers on a journey rich in images, thoughts, musings, and inner dialogues. Spiritual, psychological, and ecological themes are explored in ways that reveal infinite vistas of possibility. Part oracle, part muse, this book inspires vision and originality, allowing readers to create, define, and live their own personal mythology.

Table of Contents

Foreword vi
Laura Archera Huxley
Introduction viii
David Jay Brown
Letter to the Reader x
Suggestions for Exploring The Alchemy of Possibility xii
Section 1: Cultivating a higher perspective
The Zen Moment
3(4)
Being Stillness and Opening to Receive
7(4)
Embracing Change
11(4)
Dropping Desire - The Ecstasy of Detachment
15(4)
The Overmind View
19(4)
Tending the Inner Garden
23(4)
Editing, Sifting, Refining
27(4)
The Mirrored Lake
31(4)
Fanning Our Unique Flame
35(4)
Edgewalking: The Acrobat in Paradise
39(4)
The Pageantry of Existence
43(4)
Transforming the Mundane
47(4)
Building a Personal Architecture
51(4)
Trusting the Tao
55(4)
Section 2: Understanding physical reality and the laws of nature
The Language of Nature
59(4)
The Restorative Power of Wilderness
63(4)
Nature's Cycles
67(4)
Synchronicity
71(4)
Causality
75(4)
The Relativity of Reality
79(4)
Building Realities
83(4)
Atoms Mirror Atoms
87(6)
Genetic Codes
93(6)
The Interconnectedness of All Life
99(4)
The Brain-Tree
103(4)
Holographic Health
107(4)
Paradox in Paradise: The Coexistence of Opposites
111(4)
Mortality / Immortality
115(8)
Section 3: Personal challenges
Prejudice and Judgment
123(4)
Blame
127(4)
Suffering
131(4)
Self-Tyranny
135(4)
Ambivalence / Immobility
139(4)
Competition
143(4)
Descending Spirals
147(6)
The Isolation Grip
153(4)
Solitude / Sociability
157(4)
Mission / Ambition: The Business of Art
161(6)
Feeling / Thinking
167(4)
Sensitivity / Anesthesia
171(4)
Materialism / Spirituality
175(10)
Freedom / Safety
185(4)
Section 4: Relating to ourselves, others, family, society, earth, the cosmos
Knowing and Accepting Ourselves
189(4)
Defining Self: Being Independent of Others' Opinions
193(4)
Projection in Love
197(4)
Relationship Concepts
201(4)
Differing Capacities in Love
205(4)
Holographic Love: The Ideal
209(4)
Parallel Universes in Relationship
213(4)
Sexual Intimacy
217(6)
Ancestry Revisioned
223(6)
Leaders
229(4)
Utopian Visions
233(4)
Relating to Earth as a Being
237(6)
Piercing the Membrane
243(4)
Becoming Denizens of Other Dimensions
247(5)
List of Images 252(2)
List of Poems 254(1)
Referenced Books 255(1)
Glossary of Key Concepts & Characters 256(3)
Other Books and Work by the Author 259

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