| Illustrations | 11 | |
1 | Introduction | 17 |
2 | The Organic View | 25 |
| The Hundredth Monkey | 26 |
| Morphic fields and synchronicity | 28 | |
| Scientists prefer physical contact | 32 | |
| A universe of signals: nothing is ever alone | 35 | |
| Information exchange is instantaneous | 41 | |
| The role of genes: a willing tool waiting for an instructor | 43 | |
3 | The Physical View | 49 |
| Finding answers to the paradox: quantum 38 theory and beyond | 50 | |
| Who said space was empty? | 55 | |
| The four horsemen: Bohm, Bell, Benton, and Aspect | 59 | |
| The Great Field | 66 | |
4 | The Implications of the Field for Biology | 73 |
| Thoughts affect proteins and energy fields create form | 73 | |
| So who conducts the orchestra? | 79 | |
| Coherence creates a qualitative difference | 84 | |
| The Vishnu Paradox | 87 | |
| Replication is both coherent and unpredictable | 92 | |
| Expansion and contraction | 99 | |
5 | Our Heart Brain and the Cerebral Brain | 105 |
| The three earlier brains | 105 | |
| Differences between men and women | 107 | |
| The deep structure of the brain would be holographic | 109 | |
| Our other brain: the heart | 112 | |
| Limiting the heart-brain | 116 | |
| The fourth brain of transcendence | 117 | |
| The potential is ours only when coherence is undamaged | 120 | |
| When the forebrain connects with the heart we are granted intuition | 125 | |
6 | What constitutes the Great Field? | 131 |
| Individuality within the constraints of coherence | 134 | |
| An ever-expanding warehouse of information | 137 | |
| Definable aspects within the Great Field | 139 | |
| Projections onto the Field | 142 | |
| We may be projections from the Field | 146 | |
| When the Field gives us all we need: isn’t this Love? | 149 | |
| How can we be a victim? | 152 | |
| There is no plan, so what of good and evil? | 155 | |
| Is human consciousness of benefit to the universe? | 157 | |
| Other universes with different laws | 161 | |
| Can the future determine the past? | 165 | |
| It seems humans have always had some knowledge of the body’s energy systems | 170 | |
| The fields of the human body | 172 | |
| We are socialized to turn reality into illusion | 174 | |
| Duality in the human field: Tarzan v. Jane | 180 | |
| Disguising our contradictions creates shadows | 181 | |
| Soul with a million definitions | 185 | |
| Experiencing soul | 187 | |
| Soul in our energy system | 194 | |
9 | The Soul Incarnates | 199 |
| We are created in the whisper of the soul | 200 | |
| The soul is present in the womb | 203 | |
| Soul is affected by death in the womb | 207 | |
| The manner of our birth changes soul | 212 | |
| From the Void to emptiness: soul is replaced by ego | 215 | |
10 | The Nature of Soul | 219 |
| Coming back or not: reincarnation | 219 | |
| Karma accumulates in the soul | 222 | |
| Souls are not on a journey | 225 | |
| No emotions, no judgment, no suffering | 229 | |
| Separation from soul | 231 | |
| Creation of opposite fields | 235 | |
| Grouping of soul-fields | 239 | |
| Only through service can we change sou | 242 | |
11 | Return to Eden | 247 |
| What is our goal if not our enlightenment? | 248 | |
| Can therapy help us get there? | 252 | |
| Peak experiences: meeting the Field unexpectedly | 255 | |
| If it’s a mission, it’s impossible | 259 | |
| We are the consciousness of the Earth | 260 | |
Appendix 1: | Possible Scenario for the Creation of Matter out of the Great Field | 263 |
Appendix 2: | Summary of the Psyche that has been Applied to the Great Field | 265 |
| Permissions and Acknowledgments | 269 | |
| Endnotes | 271 |