The Spiritual Universe
by Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D.
One physicist's vision of spirit, soul, matter, and self
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Paperback Edition
PART 1
THE FAULTY GREEK FOUNDATION STONE
FOR A SOUL DEFINITION
CHAPTER 1 -- Some Soulful But Wrong Questions
Have We Lost Our Souls to Modern Technological Life?
Some Scientific Soul-Searching
The Mystery of the Soul: Can We Find a Scientific Solution?
A "New Physics of the Soul"
What Is Interesting and Original About This Book?
The Difference Between Soul and Self
From the Wrong Question to a New Understanding of the Soul
CHAPTER 2 -- Aristotelian Soul Physics
What is the Soul?
Spiritual Evidence? What's That?
Aristotle: The Soul is the Principle of Animal Life
Body and Soul as Viewed by a Saint
Body and Soul as Viewed by Aristotle
Aquinas and Aristotle: A Look at the Prime Mover
Does Aristotelian Physics Prove that the Soul Exists?
Aquinas: Movement Without a Physical Body?
Do-Be-Do-Be-Do: Action and Existence
CHAPTER 3 -- Platonic Soul Physics
The Early Greeks and the Power of Reason
Plato's Idealism and the Soul
Reality, Illusion, and Idealism
Plato's Line and Cave: Reality and Illusion
A Cave-In of the Mind
Classical Soul Physics: The Death of Socrates, but Not of His Soul
The Greek Mind-Physics: How the Soul Remembers
Plato's Proof of Immortality: Or Why We Have Evil Natures
PART 2
FROM ANCIENT EGYPT AND ALBERT EINSTEIN
TO ADAM AND EVE:
THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEOSOUL
CHAPTER 4 -- The Ancient Basis of a Modern Soul
Look Backward Angel!
Early Visions of the Soul
A Brief Look at Your Nine Souls
The Soul's Adventure in the Afterlife
The Hidden Soul and the Meaning of Aleph
What's It All About, Aleph?
CHAPTER 5 -- Resurrection Physics: A Lesson from the Land of Joking Smoking Skulls
Tipler's Life, the Universe, and Everything
From the Big Bang Until the End of Time
CHAPTER 6 -- Mind, Soul, and Zero-Point Energy
All and Nothing at All About Soul
What Is Matter?
The Soul: Swimming in a Sea of Negative Energy Electrons
The Electron and I
CHAPTER 7 -- Quantum Evidence: The Self and the Soul
O, Keep Not My Soul in Cyberspace!
Are Human Beings Conscious?
Taking Your Soul for a Spin
A Soul-Spinning Tale of Heaven and Earth
The New Physics of the Soul
Self Identification: The Fall of the Soul into Space-Time
Adam and Eve: The Quantum Physics of Knowledge and Identity
Secret Knowledge and Soul Connection
PART 3
THE RISING SOUL: INTO NOTHING WE GO
CHAPTER 8 -- The Buddhist Nonsoul
A Brief History of an Enlightened Soul Physicist
Buddhist Physics: All Is Dukka!
Inertia, Entropy, and Action: The Physics of Emotion
What the Buddha Taught About Nonsouls
What the Buddha Said About the Soul
Zen Mind, Zen Body, More Quantum Thinking
A Brief Look Ahead
CHAPTER 9 -- Good, Evil, and Soul Addiction
Two Forces in the Universe
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?
The Soul and Its Shadow: Addiction
The Shadow of My Soul: Addictive Desire
The Fall of the Spirit into Matter: The Soul Believes It Is Ego
The Circle of Conditioned Genesis
CHAPTER 10 -- The Soul Trickster: Chaos, Lies, and Order
Who Is The Trickster?
At the Boundary of Chaos and Order
PART 4
THE FALLING SOUL: OUT OF NOTHING WE COME
CHAPTER 11 -- Heaven, Hell, Immortality, Reincarnation, and Karma
Where Have We Been?
Where Are We Going?
Heaven and Hell
Immortality?
Reincarnation
Karma and Khandha
Five Scandalous Khandhas
Quantum Karma Khandha
CHAPTER 12 -- How Many Souls Are There?
The One and Only Has Many Faces
Let Me Count Thy Ways
Maya's Veil: You Go Your Way and I Go Mine
CHAPTER 13 -- Soul Talk
A Ship of a Fool
The Ancient World Soul
Quantum Physics and the Two Time-Streams of the Soul
The Mothers of Creation
Do You Have a Soul?
CHAPTER 14 -- Some Soulful and Right Answers
Definitions of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self
Soul and Self: A Conversation
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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