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Cover Image -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- First Movement: Touching the Foundations of the World -- Prelude: The Soft Flutter of Butterflies -- Chapter 1: Reclaiming the Invisible -- Chapter 2: "The Doors of Perception" -- The Doors of Perception -- Sensory Flow Through the Brain -- Gating "Deficits" -- Chapter 3: "And the Doorkeeper Obeys When Spoken To" -- Intentionally Shifting Gating -- Repression-Driven Gating -- Unconscious Overrides -- Chapter 4: "Everything Is Intelligent" -- Self-Organization -- Juggling -- Everything Is Intelligent -- An Elegant Symbiosis -- Chapter 5: We Want Braaaaains -- (Our) Resistance Is Futile -- Bacterial Intelligence -- Plant Intelligence -- Plants and Perception -- The Plant Brain -- Plant Social Communication -- Chapter 6: Gaia and "the Pattern That Connects" -- LUCA -- Symbiogenesis -- Clouds, Rain, and Bioprecipitation -- The Pattern That Connects -- Pattern Formation -- Gaian Sex -- The Sense of Aesthetic Unity -- Chapter 7: "Molecular Veriditas" -- Serotonin -- Desert Locust Stories -- Gaia and Serotonin -- Serotonin and the Plant Root/Brain -- Serotonin Innovations -- Chapter 8: The Function of Psychotropics in the Ecosystem -- Serotonergic Neurognostics -- Psilocybin -- Coevolutionary Interactions in Complex Ecosystem Networks -- Psilocybin and Ecosystem Neural Networks -- DMT -- The Neuroactivity of Neurognostics -- Cannabinoids -- Neurognostics and Ecosystem Function -- Chapter 9: Inextricable Intertangling -- Second Movement: Gaia's Mind and the Dreaming of Earth -- Chapter 10: "A Certain Adjustment of Consciousness" -- Sound Synaesthesia -- The Secret Kinesis of the World -- Chapter 11: The Sea of Meaning -- Developing Perceptual Acuity -- Developing a Perceptual Database -- Chapter 12: Following Golden Threads. |
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Golden Threads in Writing -- Wood -- Music -- Depth Immersion -- Chapter 13: The Naturalist's Approach The Beginnings of Deep Earth Perception -- Chapter 14: The Imaginal World -- To Be Called Beloved by the Earth -- The Imaginal Realm -- Chapter 15: The Dreaming of Earth -- Chapter 16: Reemergence into Classical Newtonian Space -- The Song of Earth -- Bridge: Bifurcation -- Chapter 17: The Ecological Function of the Human Species -- What Are People Anyway? -- The Ecological Function of the Human Species -- Autumn -- Chapter 18: "The Road Not Taken" -- Chapter 19: Becoming Barbarian -- Coda: A Different Kind of Thinking -- Epilogue: To See the Shimmer of Infinity in the Face of the Other -- Diminuendo Al Niente: The Movement of Great Things -- Appendix 1: Sensory Overload and Self-Caretaking -- Sensory Overload -- Reducing Sensory Gating Channels -- Some Comments about the Concept of Safety -- Paranoid Events -- Taking On Someone Else's Stuff -- Depression -- Consciousness Modules -- Inner Council Work -- A Moment in Which the Author Makes a Crucial Point or Two -- The "Ego" -- The Exercises: Self-Caretaking -- Expanding the Exercises to Every Developmental Stage -- Dealing with Specific Problems -- A Few Last Words -- Appendix 2: On the Healing of Schizophrenia -- One: Accurate Information about the World -- Two: Depth Work with Multiple Conscious Modules -- Three: Heart Field Synchronization -- Four: Training in Accurate Responses to and Identification of Incoming Data -- Five: Training in Control of Sensory Gating Channels -- Six: Freeing Segregated Parts -- Seven: Seeing Them through to the End -- Footnote -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Also by Stephen Harrod Buhner -- About the Author -- About Inner Traditions Bear & -- Company -- Copyright & -- Permissions -- Index. |
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