From East To West: Odyssey of a Soul

Cover
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
	Acronyms
	Transcendental dialectical critical realism as a development within and beyond dialectical critical realism
	Resolving the antinomy of freedom and slavery
	What is new in TDCR?
	Why TDCR is not yet metaRealism
	Conclusion
Introduction to the book
	A. Preview of theory
	B. Abstract of lives
PART I General theoretical introduction
	From critical realism to the philosophy of self-realisation
		1 1M: Ontology
		2 2E: Absence
		3 3L: Totality
		4 4D: Transformative praxis or creative work
PART II Odyssey of a soul
	1 To the promised land
		Life One: Crossing the Red Sea with Moses – the Teacher
	2 Part A: Under the stars: re-enchanting reality
		Life Two: In Ancient Greece I – the Philosopher – from Pythagoras to Laozi
	Appendix to Chapter 2: part A (L2)
	2 Part B: Under the stars: re-enchanting reality
		Life Three: in Ancient Greece II – the Orchard – or Orpheus in the Underworld and the perils of attachment
	Interlude: From East to West: retrospect and
 prospect – sketches
	3 On the path: or to the promised land Part II
		Life Four: Scrolling – the Writer
		Life Five: From Galilee to Kashmir – meeting the Master
	4 The cement of the universe and the search for yoga
		Life Six: Voyages of discovery – the itinerant cardinal
	5 A taoist dawn
		Life Seven: The warlord – the Rising Sun and the divided mind
		Life Eight: In China I – the emergent heart and a life in bondage
		Life Nine: In China II – the middle truth – in search of balance, the dynamic being of emptiness and enlightenment in alienation
	6 At the heartbeat of the buddha
		Life Ten: In Tibet – a Himalayan heartbeat – or compassion and the void
	7 Transcendence and totality: or salted lasee
 with the guru
		Life Eleven: In India – the Guru – or from the path of renunciation to the path of action
	8 Back to basics: life as a sultan and its karma
		Life Twelve: The Sufi sultan
		Life Thirteen: Poverty in southern Italy (Amalfi) – the outcast
		Life Fourteen: The French philosopher – the sceptical mystic
	9 The dance of shiva in the age of Aquarius
		Life Fifteen: The circle completed – from East to West – liberation or the path to enlightenment
Index