Part one: Voices of contemporary spirituality. Love and wonder / Adyashanti --
Ordinary awakening / Gangaji --
Closer to heaven, closer to the mud / Jeff Foster --
The magic of shared awareness / Sally Kempton --
The essence of the mind / Rupert Spira --
Faces of the infinite in everyday life / Dorothy Hunt --
The wonder of unknowing / Maura Bergonzi --
Part two: The rebirth of metaphysics. Nondual vs. scientific views of reality / A.H. Almaas --
Of consciousness and paradox / Jean Houston --
Be blissful / Robert Thurman --
The qualitative science of the heart / Kabir Helminski --
The anomaly of consciousness / Peter Russell --
Radiant intimacy of the heart / Cynthia Bourgeault --
Part three: Science embraces consciousness. A brief history of consciousness / Stuart Hameroff --
Reality is eye candy / Donald Hoffman --
How to make a universe / Jude Currivan --
Mind, matter, and life : a unified systemic view / Fritjof Stapp --
Mind and wave function collapse / Henry Stapp --
Idealism reloaded : the end of the perception-imagination duality / Bernardo Kastrup --
Part four: The wonder of nature. Fundamental awareness: the universe twiddling its thumbs / Neil D. Theise --
Rethinking the "dumb random universe" model of existence / Robert Lanza --
The origin of life and consciousness : lifting and gifting our collective future / Bruce Damer --
Resurrecting real magic / Dean Radin --
The mycology of consciousness / Paul Stamats --
The ecological initiation / Charles Eisenstein --
Part five: The body as teacher. What are our bodies? / Chris Fields --
The essence of yoga : exploring our true body / Ellen Emmet --
The cerebrospinal fluid and I am / Maura Zappaterra --
Lessons from the body / Larry Dossey --
The body, the medical system, and modern society / Gabor Maté --
Cancer as an awakening journey --
Part 6: The heart of intimacy. Reflections on intimacy / Zhen Dao --
Awakened relating : being awake to our infinite nature in finite human relationships / Lynn Marie Lumiere --
Intimacy and keeping the spark alive / Michaela Boehm --
The call of the earth goddess : re-membering a spirituality of wholeness / Chameli Ardagh --
The ego cannot love / Eric Baret --
Part seven: Exploring the shadows. Developmental trauma and the transformation of anger and rage / Julie Brown Yau --
Healing trauma as a spiritual path : individual and collective dimensions / Peter A. Levine --
Mongolian shamanic trance / Corine Sombrun --
Dreaming the mystery of being aware / Stephen LaBerge --
Fifteenth-century alchemy and twenty-first-century liberation / Pamela Wilson --
Reconnecting to a child within / Edward Frenkel --
Part eight: Doorways to heaven. The science and mystery of consciousness / Pim van Lommel --
Three basic freedoms / James Fadiman --
The blessings of brokenness / Vera de Chalambert --
The portal of a poem / Mirabai Starr --
The human journey / Shakti Caterina Maggi --
Afterword : on the relationship between science and liberation / Michael A. Singer.