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Table of Contents of “The Whole Elephant”

Introduction

• Chapter 1 - Many truths and Universal Truth
  • Wisdom traditions and science
  • Inner knowing
  • Experiences of Oneness
  • The golden thread of Universal Truth
• Chapter 2 - What is the essence of Universal Truth?
  • Insight into the operation of the universe
  • The Kybalion as key to the universal laws
  • Sacred geometry
  • The universal principles as a frame of reference
  • Two entirely different ways of observing
• Chapter 3 - The first Law - The Law of Oneness
  • Any description of Oneness is inadequate
  • A field of information
  • Everything is connected with everything else
  • Everything is in essence Consciousness and Love
  • A field of potentiality
• Western science and the Law of Oneness
  • The zero-point energy field that underlies everything
  • Everything is connected with everything else via quantum entanglement
  • The unified field is a field of consciousness
  • Contact with the field of possibilities
  • The primacy of consciousness
• Chapter 4 - The second Law - The Law of Correspondence
  • ‘As above, so below; as below, so above’
  • The different levels of reality
  • We human beings are multidimensional as well
  • All changes at one level influence all other levels
• Western science and the Law of Correspondence
  • David Bohm and the Theory of Implicate Order
  • Our consciousness is not solely located inside our brain
  • The fractal-principle that underlies the holographic universe
  • Consciousness and the different levels of reality
  • Our influence and our responsibility
• Chapter 5 - The Third Law - The Law of Vibration
  • All is energy
  • Creation myths
  • The principle of harmonic resonance
  • We too have our own unique pattern of vibration
  • The Law of Power and/or the Law of Love
• Western science and the Law of Vibration
  • All is energy and Albert Einstein’s famous E = mc²
  • The path of least resistance and the Principle of Least Action
  • The principle of harmonic resonance in science
  • Everything can be recognized by a unique interference pattern
  • Our own unique frequencies of vibration and our perception
  • Our emotions, our health and our heart as centre of co-ordination
• Chapter 6 - Laws derived from the Law of Vibration
  • The Law of Attraction: we attract what radiates out from us
  • The Mirror Principle: that what we are unconscious of becomes visible
  • The Law of Attention: that what we focus our attention on, will expand
  • The Law of Surrender: making space for the Principle of Least Resistance
  • The Law of Power and/or the Law of Love and our soul purpose
  • The Law of Conscious Transmutation of Energy
• Western science and the Laws derived from the Law of Vibration
  • The Law of Attraction and the psychology of the interpersonal expectations
  • The Mirror Principle in psychology
  • The Law of Attention and conscious use of our free will
  • The role of consciousness in healing
  • The relationship between consciousness and subtle energy
  • Scalar energy beyond space and time
• Chapter 7 - The fourth Law - The Law of Polarity
  • All exists in relative duality
  • The Creation myths tell about the coming into existence of the first polarity
  • All pairs of opposites may be reconciled at a higher level
  • The Law of Divine Paradox: Absolute and relative truth
  • Conscious use of insight in the Law of Polarity
• Western science and the Law of Polarity
  • The sub-atomic paradoxes
  • Everything turns out to be relative
  • What we perceive are relative differences
  • The Law of Divine Paradox: ontology and epistemology
• Chapter 8 - The fifth Law - The Law of Rhythm
  • Everything is always changing
  • The rhythmic cycli on small and large scales
  • The cycli of involution and evolution
  • A spiral process of development
  • Stories about four or five ‘worlds’
  • The calendars of the Maya’s and the year 2012
  • Applying the Law of Rhythm in our favor
• Western science and the Law of Rhythm
  • Cyclic changes in nature
  • Nonlocality and the level of reality beyond space and time
  • The Chaos Theory
  • Chaos Theory and the spiral process of biological evolution
  • Chaos Theory and a spiral process of historic and cultural evolution
  • A spiral process of development and radical changes about 5000 years ago
• Chapter 9 - The sixth Law - The Law of Cause and Effect
  • Every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause
  • The nonvisible world of cause and the visible world of effect
  • The Golden Rule
  • The Law of Cause and Effect and our responsibility
  • The phenomenon of synchronicity
  • The Law of Karma
• Western science and the Law of Cause and Effect
  • The visible effects of the subtle dynamics of nonvisible causes
  • Chaos Theory and strange attractors as nonvisible, non-linear causes
  • The improbability of chance
  • The complete new perspective based on epigenetics
  • Synchronicity as a multidimensional feedback system
  • The Law of Karma and the continuity of consciousness
• Chapter 10 - The seventh Law - The Law of Dynamic Balance
  • Everything is composed of two active dynamic principles
  • The basic pattern of expansion and contraction
  • The dynamic and harmonic balance between energy and form
  • The Golden Mean spiral as the natural movement for energy
  • The very special properties of the Golden Mean
  • When two opposing Golden Mean spirals merge new life is created
  • The Golden Mean spiral is the path along which creation takes place
  • The Golden Progression
  • The Golden Mean as the essence of ourselves
  • Our striving for a dynamic balance in ourselves
  • Development happens when the unbalance leans toward the female principle
  • The law of Action
• Chapter 11 - Western science and the Law of Dynamic Balance
  • Lonely pioneers who were far ahead of their time
  • The Law of Dynamic Balance and the Theory of Dissipative Structures
  • Criticality at the ‘edge of chaos’
  • The dynamic morfology of plants
  • The fractal as universal principle for the relationship between energy and form
  • The Golden Mean as underlying universal principle
  • The Golden Mean as universal constant
  • We all have the male and the female principle inside of us
  • A classical and a quantum way of processing information
  • The intelligene of the heart
  • The hunger of the soul and our striving for dynamic balance in ourselves

Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index