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Contents Preface to the 2001 Edition Introduction: Who Am I? Half of It No-Boundary Territory No-Boundary Awareness The No-Boundary Moment The Growth of Boundaries The Persona Level: The Start of Discovery The Centaur Level The Self in Transcendence The Ultimate State of Consciousness Index Preface to the 2001 Edition ALTHOUGH No Boundary is the second book I wrote, almost thirty years ago, it is still one of the most popular of my books. I believe the reason is simple: No Boundary was one of the first books to present a full-spectrum view of human potentials, potentials that reach from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, and in so doing, it integrated the very best of psychology with the best of spirituality. In drawing on the finest of both Eastern and Western approaches to human growth and development, it charted a complete spectrum of consciousness that moved from subconscious to self-conscious to superconscious, from pre-personal to personal to transpersonal, from instinct to ego to God. And it offered an entire smorgasbord of actual practices and exercises that showed the reader how to reach each of these higher states of consciousness. The completeness of this approach made it rather unique, and I believe that is why readers have continued to respond enthusiastically. The years since I wrote No Boundary have convinced me even more that its basic message is still sound and true. Human beings do indeed possess a remarkable spectrum of consciousness, a vast rainbow of extraordinary potentials and possibilities, and those potentials do indeed run from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit. Individuals can grow and develop through that entire spectrum, directly experiencing each of those levels or colors in the rainbow, resulting in a direct experience of spirit itself. Various psychological and spiritual practices—many of which you will be offered in the following pages—help us directly experience these various levels or waves in our own being. Thus,