The Cosmic Game

The Cosmic Game discusses the broadest philosophical, metaphysical and spiritual insights gleaned in Grof's research concerning human nature and reality, addressing the most fundamental questions human beings have asked about the nature of existence since time immemorial.

Insights from research into nonordinary states of consciousness portray existence as an astonishing play of the cosmic creative principle that transcends time, space, linear causality; and polarities of every kind and suggest an identity of the individual psyche in its furthest reaches with the universal creative principle and the totality of existence. This identity of the human being with the Divine is the ultimate secret that lies at the core of all great spiritual traditions.

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Acknowledgments

ix

1. Introduction

1

(12)

2. Cosmos, Consciousness, and Spirit

13

(12)

3. The Cosmic Creative Principle

25

(16)

4. The Process of Creation

41

(36)

5. The Ways to Reunion with the Cosmic Source

77

(28)

6. The Problem of Good and Evil

105

(30)

7. Birth, Sex, and Death: The Cosmic Connection

135

(24)

8. The Mystery of Karma and Reincarnation

159

(26)

9. The Taboo against Knowing Who You Are

185

(14)

10. Playing the Cosmic Game

199

(28)

11. The Sacred and the Profane

227

(42)

Bibliography

269

(6)

Index

275

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