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Chapter 7 Individual Achievement and the Great Religions
The search for completeness -- Evolution focuses on the individual -- The characteristics of the axial age individuals -- The first true individuals -- Kinds of religion -- Ethnic and universal religions -- Decay and revival in universal religions -- Ethnic and universal religions: a summary -- Religions in particular

 
   
     
   
 
     
  Chapter 8 Buddhism as Higher Evolution
The culmination of lower evolution -- The founder of Buddhism -- Gautama's quest -- The Buddha decides on compassionate activity -- The sangha and the ideals of Buddhism -- The theoretical basis of Buddhism: conditioned co-production -- Cyclical and progressive conditionality

Chapter 9 The Spiral Path: Building on Self-reflection
Ascending the stupa -- The path in principle -- The path as a spiral -- The seven Factors of Enlightenment -- (1) Cultivating mindfulness or recollection -- Integrated awareness and the ego -- (2) Investigation of mental states -- (3) Energy -- (4) Rapture -- (5) Tension-release or tranquillity -- Absorption: a new level of consciousness -- (6) Concentration or samadhi -- (7) Balance or equanimity

Chapter 10 Transcending Self and Non-dual Insight
Sense faculties and spiritual faculties -- Longing for the real -- Wisdom -- The experience of insight -- The point of no return -- Self-transcendence -- The bodhisattva -- The bodhisattva principle

Conclusion
Deciding to evolve -- Evolving beings -- Being fully human -- Experiencing the absorptions and insight -- The bodhisattva -- The golden thread

Appendix: An Evolving Idea: Evolutionary Thinking Through the Ages
Evolutionary ideas in the ancient world -- Indian Buddhist evolution myths -- A birth story -- Tibetan Buddhist evolution myths -- Evolution reappears -- Darwin's discovery -- Evolution's challenge to fixed views -- Evolutionary ideas since Darwin -- Escalator evolutionism

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