Introduction. From Chaos to Intimacy, A Primer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Self and Interdependence vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. From Chaos to Intimacy, A Primer 1
6. PART I. Origins
7. 1. Primal Emergence 17
8. 2. Out of the Dreamtime 30
9. PART II. The Ascendance of Cooperation
10. 3. The Quickening of Chemistry 47
11. 4. Ecology Emergent 66
12. 5. Intimate Ark: Sex and Emergence 81
13. 6. Social Order in Nature Between Conflict and Cooperation 96
14. PART III. Emergence of the Fractal Self
15. 7. Self within World 119
16. 8. From Self to Sage 136
17. 9. From Self to No-Self to All-Self 149
18. PART IV. The Fractal Self at Large
19. 10. Anti-sage From Cult to Empire 167
20. 11. Into Indra’s Net 184
21. Notes 201
22. Index 223
23. About the Authors 235