Introduction: inventing the "divine self": where are we headed
Survivor to shaman: discovering the divine self
Dancing for Dionysus: new myths for the utopian stage
shaman to sage:L religion of the one
"The true mystics": Orpheus as Plato's muse
"The foes! the foes!": soul saving in Alexandria
Hermes Trismegistus: the cult without temples
Savior of or from the world?: Christianity and gnosis
Orphic exegesis: the eternal gospel
A christian reconstruction of late neoplatonism: St. Paul's philosopher-convert
Cosmotheism as philosophical religion: Eriugena's Dionysius
Prophetic gnosis: dreaming of utopia