Table of Contents
About This Book ix
Chapter 1 Going With 1
Theology and the Laws of Nature 4
Thinking Makes It So 9
Everything Is Context 14
Going With 18
What We Mean by Intelligence 27
Ecological Awareness 34
Of Gods and Puppets 42
Chapter 2 Civilizing Technology 55
The Problem of Abstractions 58
We Need a New Analogy 62
Working with the Field of Forces 65
Trust 70
Synergy and the One World Town 79
Privacy, Artificiality, and the Self 82
Groups and Crowds 93
Chapter 3 Money and Materialism 97
The Material Is the Spiritual 99
Money and the Good Life 104
True Materialism 110
Wiggles, Seriousness, and the Fear of Pleasure 120
The Failure of Money and Technology 125
The Problem of Guilt 130
Chapter 4 In Praise of Swinging 137
Rigidity and Identity 138
Now Is When the World Begins 143
Are We Going to Make It? 145
Polarization and Contrast 150
No Escape 162
Chapter 5 What Is So of Itself 173
Spontaneity and the Unborn Mind 175
Relaxation, Religion, and Rituals 181
Saving the World 194
Notes 199
About the Author 203