Table of contents : Contents Preface: Self and Interdependence Acknowledgments Introduction. From Chaos to Intimacy, A Primer PART I. Origins 1. Primal Emergence 2. Out of the Dreamtime PART II. The Ascendance of Cooperation 3. The Quickening of Chemistry 4. Ecology Emergent 5. Intimate Ark: Sex and Emergence 6. Social Order in Nature Between Conflict and Cooperation PART III. Emergence of the Fractal Self 7. Self within World 8. From Self to Sage 9. From Self to No-Self to All-Self PART IV. The Fractal Self at Large 10. Anti-sage From Cult to Empire 11. Into Indra’s Net Notes Index About the Authors