Stephen Levine is a renowned meditation teacher and writer who has pioneered terminally ill counselling. Ondrea Levine co-directs the Hanuman Foundation with Stephen, and has worked with the dying for 25 years. They live in the mountains of New Mexico 'attempting to practise what we preach'.

Introduction Part 1: A Healing Convergence 1. Approaching the Path 2. Acknowledging the Beloved 3. Awakening Possibilities 4. Completing Birth 5. conscious Relationship 6. Relationship as Healing 7. In the Boneyard of the Beloved 8. Small Mind, Small Heart; Big Mind, Big Heart 9. Proper Grammar 10. I and Another 11. An Experiment in Consciousness: A Classical Act of Devotion 12. An Experiment in Mystical Union Part 2: Deepening the Union 13. Alone with the Beloved 14. Levels of Conscious Connection 15. Romantic Love, Harmonic Union 16. Bonding 17. Triangulation 18. Vows 19. Narcissus 20. Embracing Narcissus 21. Through the Fire to the Beloved 22. Softening the Armored Heart 23. Opening the Heart in Hell 24. The Grieving Heart Part 3: The Solid Ground of the Path 25. Having Children, Children Having You 26. A Whole Family 27. Learning to Love Your Parents 28. Desire 29. Sexuality 30. The Great Desire 31. Unfinished Business 32. Forgiveness 33. Karma Savings and Loan 34. Passive Aggression 35. The High-Wire Act 36. Loving Kindness Part 4: A Certain Clarity 37. Meeting the Buddha 38. My Mind, Your Mind, No Mind 39. Being Present 40. An Experiment in Consciousness: A Classical Act of Mindfulness 41. Living in the Lab 42. Watching in Another 43. Some Thoughts About Thinking Part 5: Fine Tuning 44. Comparing Mind 45. Communication 46. Responders 47. Perception 48. Who's in Control Here? 49. Fear of... 50. Endgame: Separation, Death and Conscious Divorce 51. Death of a Loved One