This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show how they fall short. He then presents his philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from a transformation in consciousness.

FOREWORD BY RON LEONARD INTRODUCTION PART I: FOUR SCHOOLS OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY 1 Toward a Synthetic Philosophy 2 Naturalism General Naturalism Materialism Positivism 3 The New Realism 4 Pragmatism Vitalism Empiric Voluntarism Percept and Concept Pragmatic Science Gnostic Realization Idealistic Pragmatism Test by Consequences 5 Idealism Ideas: Plato to Kant The Primordial Image: Jung Reason as Nous and Logos 6 Introceptual Idealism Freedom and Necessity Introception and Introspection Self and Divine Otherness Ideas: Hegel and Schopenhauer The Self Unidentified Introception The Problem of Formulation Conception, Perception and Introception PART II: INTROCEPTUALISM 7 Introception The Flow of Consciousness Introceptual Process: St. John of the Cross Conception and the Mystic Thought 8 Transcendentalism Conception and Introception Innate Ideas The Subject Transcends the Object 9 Reality and Appearance Conceptual Presentation Substantiality Is Inversely Proportional to Ponderability Knowledge through Identity 10 The Meaning of Divinity PART III: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF MYSTICISM 11 Judgments of Meaning and Existence 12 Three Mystical Paradigms Mysticism The Christ The Buddha Shankara Self (Atman) or No-Self (Anatman) A Mathematical Model of Ego Metaphysics 13 Mystical Knowledge Critique of Leuba's Methodology The Mystic Thought Knowledge as Negation Shift in the Base of Reference Leuba's Antinoetic Argument 14 Significance of Immediate Qualities of Mystical States EPILOGUE INDEX