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Acknowledgments | ||
Introductory reflections : little alps and big alps, again and again | 1 | |
The spirituality of a fractal sensibility : toward whole networks of scales | 1 | |
Standing back and learning lessons from fractal beauty and fractal unity | 8 | |
Hidden links : elvish sightings of the power of the unconscious | 13 | |
Strand 1 | The weave of the net | 19 |
Retrieving Heaven's fractal net from the waters : sensibilities of the cosmic in world religions | 19 | |
What are fractals, and what is their relation to nature? | 21 | |
Nets work | 27 | |
The strength of strings no heart can hope to hum : fractal-like images from literatures of the world religions | 28 | |
Fractal-like recursive patterns in traditions : envisioning heavens and hells | 39 | |
Recursive patterns in Dante's Divine comedy | 41 | |
Tamil correspondences, levels, and the thread of unity | 46 | |
Dogen's interactive fluid Zen "net-aphor" | 50 | |
"Love is strange" - water as an embodiment of cosmic possibilities | 54 | |
Strand 2 | Shipshape Earth and other fractal holding patterns | 60 |
Cosmic images of wholeness : fractal-like functions in spiritual traditions | 60 | |
Geometry that spans levels of existence : reflections of wholeness | 63 | |
Examples of fractals and related patterns in the literatures of spirituality | 72 | |
Buddhist images and other examples from spiritual traditions | 76 | |
One example of cosmic sensibility : mysterious life in the hold of shipshape Earth | 80 | |
Strand 3 | Like father, like son | 85 |
Imitatio Dei : self-similarity following sacred patterns | 85 | |
Self-similarity in structures of ancient religious systems | 86 | |
Following the ultimate likewise : the Taoist sage as self-Similar to Tao | 91 | |
Hinduism and the following of divine patterns | 92 | |
Judaism and patterns of likeness | 93 | |
Imitation of Christ : Christianity and similarity | 95 | |
All at once and once and for Allah : Islamic patterns of similarity and apocalyptic style | 99 | |
Horrific similarity : profanely playing god | 101 | |
"Otherizing" kin or celebrating oneness | 104 | |
Power relations, peer relations, and relations of subordination | 105 | |
Experiential openness and resonance | 107 | |
Strand 4 | Creatures of creativity, creativity of creatures | 113 |
Wholeness thinking in images : "the madness of art" and art's rational strength | 113 | |
Child creativity, wholeness, echoes of eco | 119 | |
Creativity : wave upon wave of catchable energies | 126 | |
The way of art as opening and paradox | 128 | |
Sensitivity to resonating nuances and "chunks" | 132 | |
Drawn by the updraft, taking risks involved in love | 134 | |
Strand 5 | Atom snowflake Kingdom Earth : fractals in literature | 138 |
Philosophers and poets on the signs of mind in the cosmos | 138 | |
Thomas Traherne's Treasures of childhood : a mystic's fractal-like paradisal reflections | 148 | |
Fractals everywhere and voices of infinity : other mystic poets of cosmic sensibility | 152 | |
Notes on fractal sensibilities in various stories and verses | 158 | |
Strand 6 | Elephants carved in ivory : nature-culture fractal wholeness | 167 |
Overlappings of nature and cultural traditions : discovery and invention, inspiration and cultivation | 167 | |
Dreams of reason in the furnace of concealed flame | 173 | |
Self-similarities in evolution and mental processes : E. O. Wilson's mammal genes and mammal society | 175 | |
Correspondences : evolution as mental process : Bateson and systems theory, chaos, and paradox | 180 | |
Evidences of mind in matter | 184 | |
Nature and culture in the relations of humanity and land | 189 | |
Descartes encounters chaos and backs off | 194 | |
What way of culture shall we iterate? | 200 | |
Strand 7 | Envoy : child of oneness | 205 |
Child all awe and law | 205 | |
Child of wonder oneness | 210 | |
Hidden in the layers of scale from DNA to stretchmark galaxies | 215 | |
Interweaving strands | 218 | |
Riddles of early Taoist vision : "Pao I" | 219 | |
Eka : Vedic-Upanishadic vision : see and become the one consciousness | 220 | |
Ehad : listen to the one god, one and only, only reality | 222 | |
Plotinus : ascending to the One's presence, living an inspired dance around the One | 224 | |
Goethe's mode : the wholeness of nature, meaning's self-revelation | 225 | |
Natural law and self-similarity : fractal process structures | 227 | |
Envoy to the envoy | 236 | |
Conclusion : unfoldings without a finale | 241 | |
Something fractal this way comes! (why are there fractals in culture?) | 241 | |
Nothing new (and all things new) | 247 | |
Getting cracking : the proof of the principle is in the practice | 253 | |
Notes | 259 | |
Index | 305 |
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