THE GAIA SUTRA
Commentary on the nature of mind and spirit.

One. The Nature of Mind
Mind as a complex system; mind and consciousness.

• Introduction
• Consciousness
• Empirical Evidence for Consciousness as a Fundamental Property
• Mind
• Life against entropy; purposefulness that implies consciousness
• Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
• The Mystic Understanding
• Summary

Two. The Gaia Mind
The Gaian world system as a mind; is Gaia conscious?

• The Gaia Hypothesis
• The Collective Gaian Conscious
• Evidence for a collective Gaian Consciousness.
  • Remarkable Cooperation
  • The Behavior of Complex Societies and Herds
  • Psychic Links
  • Unexplainable knowledge
  • Domesticated animals--One paw in two worlds.
• Scientific Theories

Three. We are Gaia's Children
Humanity as a collective mind; the evolution of the collective human consciousness and its relation to Gaia

• The Collective Unconscious
• Tracking the Collective Consciousness through Mythology
• Myths of Hunter gatherers
• Shamanic Revelations
• Mythologies of agrarian societies
• Mythologies of the city states
• Iron Age Mythology
• The birth of good and evil
• Prophetic Revelations
• The Development of World Religions
• Mystical Revelations
• The Individual and the "New Age"
• Humanity and the archaeon cyanobacteria; a comparison

Four. The Individual; a Child of Many Mothers
The various states of individual consciousness; their relation to the human collective and Gaia

• Transpersonal Consciousness
  • The Shaman
  • Tales from the Heart
  • Mystical Numbers and Rythms
  • Vertically connected people
  • Out of body experiences
  • Deep mystical experiences
• The development of the individual
  • Jean Gebser
  • Ken Wilber
  • Erich Neumann
  • Evaluating the Theories
• A Natural History of Heaven

Conclusion: The Hero Myth and the Human Journey