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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