Chapter One: Observer and Participant
Heinsenberg's Uncertainty Principle
The myth of casuality
Schrödinger's cat
Von Neumann's catastrophe of infinite regression
The Copenhagen collapse
Consciousness as the hidden variable
Self-reference cosmologies
The participator principle
The structure of matter may not be independent of consciousness
The garden of the forking paths
The many worlds hypothesis

Chapter Two: A Holographic Model of Consciousness
Holograms
The existence of consciousness
The interconnection of all portions of the brain
The quantum principle
Causality and holism
The fields of life
The human biocomputer
Cognitional multi-dimensional projection spaces
A holographic model of consciousness
The light inside the head
The bootstrap theory
The reality-structurer
Fields, within fields, within fields

PART TWO: THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE-TIME

Chapter Three: Superspace
Fire walkers
The world of the very small
Waves and particles
The limits of our language
Quanta
The curvature of space
Physics is geometry
The quantum foam
Geometrodynamics
Miniblackholes and miniwhiteholes
Wormholes in the fabric of space-time
Particles as undulations in the nothingness
The quantum interconnectedness of the universe
The space-time code
The chromosomes of matter
Existences or essences?
The superhologram of reality

Chapter Four: Beyond the Light Cone
Beyond space-time
Frames of reference
The active future and the passive past
Impossible world lines
The light cone
Elsewhere
Tachyons and faster-than-light particles
No future, no past, no time
Positrons seen as electrons scattered backwards through time
The time ordering of events

Chapter Five: The Shape of Time
An encounter with the Euphrates
Retrocausality
The shape of time
Backwards movies of the future
Time symmetry and butterflies embedded in glass
An indefinite number of pasts
The interpenetrating universes
Memories of the future
The prophecies of Quetzalcoatl
Extraterrestrial anthropology
Hyperspace and hypertime
A new look at archetypal information
A very strange Euphrates, indeed

PART THREE: MYSTICISM AND THE NEW PHYSICS

Chapter Six: Tantra and Quantum Theory
Superspace versus the akasa
Nada and bindu
Lines of the magnetic field and the hairs of Siva
Lines of force trapped in the topology of space
Miniblackholes predicted in the ancient texts
Puckers in the fabric of space-time
Quantum interconnectedness and omnijectivity
The world as consciousness

Chapter Seven: The Interpenetrating Universes
The miracle of Fatima
Mass hallucinations and folie à deux
Flying saucers and globes of light
The "out there"
Primitive people unable to see photographs
The environment as we perceive it is our invention
Do cognitive processes compute wristwatches?
What is "out there"?
A dying demon
Sustaining the vision
No world available to direct touch
The nagual and the tonal of don Juan
Areas of constructive interference
The yoga of the dream state
"Man's mind mirrors a universe which mirrors man's mind"
The world is a dream
Peeking into infinity
Chapter Eight: The Reality-Structurer
On the slopes of the Himalayas
Yoga of the psychic heat
Tulpas and projections of the mind
The dance of chöd
Visualizing mental formations
Metaprogramming the biocomputer
Beyond god
Our word-build world
The energy centers of the human nervous system
The serpent power
A "biological basis for religion"
The gradation of planes of consciousness

Chapter Nine: The New Cosmology
The cosmic game of hide-and-seek
Black Elk speaks
The ultimate reality
Astral cities and journeys out of the body
Locale II
Structural entities and functional entities
Transactions with reality
Deceased spirits or split personalities?
The act of participation
Choosing cosmic eggs
Almighty powers shut in nature's cells
The game of Tlön
In search of the fantastic
Reality enclaves
The evolution of the human mind
Matter-space-time as a cosmic brain
The "childlike laughter of the infinite"

An Afternote on Language
Zen proverbs
Imparting no information
Discrimination is meaning
Games Zen Masters play
Thinking with words
Thinking without words
"Body-knowing"
The holographic components of thought
Beyond all words and symbols
Buddhahood

Afterword to the 1992 Edition Mysticism and the New Physics Revisited
How this book came to be written
What has changed today
The most important experiment of the century
Garage mechanics at the edge of a precipice
Passion at a distance
Nonlocal fish and the universe as a seamless whole
Using quantum interconnectedness as an intergalatic telegraph system
Other important developments - a chapter by chapter update

Glossary of Scientific Terms
Notes
For Further Reading
Index