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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
The Flowering of Human Consciousness 1
The Purpose of This Book 5
Our Inherited Dysfunction 8
The Arising New Consciousness 13
Spirituality and Religion 17
The Urgency of Transformation 20
A New Heaven and a New Earth 23
Ego: The Current State of Humanity 25
Content and Structure of the Ego 34
Identification with Things 35
The Illusion of Ownership 42
Wanting: The Need for More 46
Identification with the Body 49
Feeling the Inner Body 52
Forgetfulness of Being 53
From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight 54
The Peace That Passes All Understanding 56
Complaining and Resentment 61
Reactivity and Grievances 64
Being Right, Making Wrong 66
In Defense of an Illusion 67
Truth: Relative or Absolute? 69
The Ego Is Not Personal 72
Do You Want Peace or Drama? 77
Beyond Ego: Your True Identity 77
All Structures Are Unstable 79
The Ego's Need to Feel Superior 81
Role-playing: The Many Faces of the Ego 85
Villain, Victim, Lover 87
Letting Go of Self-Definitions 89
The Monk with Sweaty Palms 94
Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness 95
Parenthood: Role or Function? 97
Recognizing Your Child 104
Giving Up Role-playing 106
The Background Unhappiness 112
The Secret of Happiness 114
Pathological Forms of Ego 118
Work-With and Without Ego 121
Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality 127
The Duck with a Human Mind 137
Individual and Collective 141
How the Pain-Body Renews Itself 144
How the Pain-Body Feeds on Your Thoughts 145
How the Pain-Body Feeds on Drama 148
Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body 152
The Collective Female Pain-Body 154
National and Racial Pain-Bodies 157
The Return of the Pain-Body 167
The Pain-Body in Children 169
Breaking Identification with the Pain-Body 174
The Pain-Body as an Awakener 180
Breaking Free of the Pain-Body 183
Finding Who You Truly Are 185
Who You Think You Are 186
Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself 192
Chaos and Higher Order 194
Not Minding What Happens 198
The Ego and the Present Moment 200
The Dreamer and the Dream....