The Inner Palace Table of Contents



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THE INNER PALACE:
MIRRORS OF PSYCHOSPIRITUALITY
IN DIVINE AND SACRED WISDOM-TRADITIONS
(for the eBook, based on the revised and corrected Sixth Edition, 2010)

TABLE OF CONTENTS (second page number refers to the endnotes for the given section)

Foreword by Robert C. Solomon, Ph.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Overture (First Taste) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii/319
Scholarly Prelude (Preface) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx/326
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxvii
Coda (To the Reader) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxix/339
Encore (For the Second Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxi
I: Spiritual Gates and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/340
II: Gnostics, Mystics, Accountants, and Surfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/351
III: What is the Mind? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33/369
IV: Higher Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37/371
V: Ego Consciousness, Enlightenment Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38/372
VI: Yearning, Confusion, and the Fulcrum of Consciousness . . . . . . . . . . . . 42/378
VII: This Matter of Self-Importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62/387
VIII: The Taste of the Divine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64/388
IX: How To Take The First Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72/394
X: Mood, Thought, and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86/400
XI: Mundane Madness, Crazy Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92/403
XII: The Gradual and the Sudden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103/416
XIII: Right Saintly Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112/423
XIV: Thought Qualities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123/442
XV: No Mind for Stillpoint Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149/457
XVI: No Mind with Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174/471
XVII: The Space of Emptiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199/487
XVIII: Sacred Emptiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247/514
XIX: The Tao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271/532
XX: Polysociative Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280/537


VOLUME 2:

Variations and Modulations (Endnotes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Scores and Parts (Bibliography) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594
Themes and Melodies (Index) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
Pípá 琵琶 Transcriptions (Chinese Appendix) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795


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