The secret teachings of plants/ the intelligence of the heart in the direct perception of nature Harrod Buhner Stephen

TITLE PAGE; DEDICATION; EPIGRAPH; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; A NOTE TO THE READER; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: SYSTOLE; PROLOGUE TO PART ONE; SECTION ONE: NATURE; CHAPTER ONE; COAST LINES; THE SUBJECTIVITY OF SCIENCE; FRACTALS, NONLINEARITY, AND DETERMINISTIC CHAOS; CHAPTER TWO; MOLECULAR SELF-ORGANIZATION; OF CLOWNS AND UNICYCLES; THE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF LIVING ORGANISMS; CHAPTER THREE; CELLS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SECTION TWO: THE HEART; CHAPTER FOUR; THE PUMPING HEART; THE NONPUMPING HEART; THE HEART AS ENDOCRINE GLAND THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM HEARTTHE ELECTROMAGNETIC HEART; CHAPTER FIVE; INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEART COHERENCE; HEART-BRAIN ENTRAINMENT; IMPACTS ON HEALTH AND DISEASE; HEART COMMUNICATION WITH THE EXTERNAL WORLD; BEYOND PEOPLE; CHAPTER SIX; PART TWO: DIASTOLE; PROLOGUE TO PART TWO; SECTION ONE: VERIDITAS; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; SECTION TWO: THE TASTE OF WILD WATER; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; SECTION THREE: THE FRUITFUL DARKNESS; CHAPTER TWELVE; INTERLUDE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; SECTION FOUR: GRAINS OF SAND FROM ANOTHER SHORE; CHAPTER FOURTEEN EPILOGUEAPPENDIX; EXERCISE 1: THE HUMAN WORLD; EXERCISE 2: PEOPLE; EXERCISE 3: THE NATURAL WORLD; EXERCISE 4: THE CHILD; EXERCISE 5: THE INFANT; EXERCISE 6: THE BODY; EXERCISE 7: ORGAN SYSTEMS; EXERCISE 8: GOING DEEPER INTO THE HUMAN WORLD; EXERCISE 9: GOING DEEPER INTO PEOPLE; EXERCISE 10: GOING DEEPER INTO NATURE; FOOTNOTES; ENDNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH COMMENTARY; ALSO BY STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ABOUT INNER TRADITIONS BEAR & COMPANY; BOOKS OF RELATED INTEREST; COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS