Foreword [written by Fritjof Capra, physicist]
Preface : A cognitive history of humanity
Introduction : Shaping our history
Part 1. Everything is connected : How we became human
The magical weave of language
The rise of mythic consciousness
The giving environment : the world of hunter-gatherers
Part 2. Hierarchy of the Gods : Agriculture and anxiety
Going their own way : early civilizations
Part 3. The patterns diverge : Western pattern : split cosmos, split human ; Eastern patterm: harmonic web of life
The birth of Dualism in Ancient Greece
Dualism and divinity in Ancient India
The search for harmony in Ancient China
The cultural shaping of our minds
Pathways to Monotheism in Israel and Alexandria
Sinful nature : the dualistic cosmos of Christianity
The scourge of Monotheistic intolerance
Discovering the principles of nature in Song China
Part 4. Conquest of nature : "To command the world": metaphors of nature
Great rats : the story of power and exploitation
The enigma of scientific revolution
The language of God : the emergence of scientific cognition
"Something fare more deeply interfused" the systems worldview
Consuming the earth in the modern era
Part 5. The web of meaning? Trajectories to our future.
