1.  Introduction: why this text was written

• A personal preamble
• The need for two fundamental sciences
• For whom this text is meant

2.  Psychology and its place within the academic world

• Psychology and what happened to it
• How science, and society, became more and more physicalist
• How psychology followed the hard sciences, and lost itself
• Two different ideas on what the world is made of
• Can we bring them together?

3.  Learning from physics

• Watching the stars
• What made the hard sciences progress so quickly?
• Learning from other knowledge systems

4.  Learning from the Indian knowledge systems

• Four major contributions the Indian knowledge systems can make to psychology
• Super-specializations, and the need for a synthesis
• Integration of Indian methods of inquiry with those of science

5.  Integrality

• Why this text is called Infinity in a Drop
• Integrality as translation of purna

6.  Consciousness and its role in reality

• Introduction: three concepts of Consciousness
• The physicalist concept of consciousness
• Consciousness from the perspective of exclusive spirituality
• The integral concept of consciousness °
• Synopsis: comparing the physicalist and integral views

7.  An ongoing evolution of consciousness

• The evolution of matter, life and mind
• The post-biological evolution:
  changing the world and changing ourselves
• The necessity of an involution before the evolution
• The next step in the evolution of consciousness

8.  How do we know?

• Four ways of arriving at knowledge
• Naïve and expert modes of arriving at knowledge
• From introspection to puruṣa-based self-observation
• Perfecting one's inner instruments of knowledge
• Four knowledge realms

9.  Doing yoga-based, consciousness-centred research

• Looking at science and yoga as complementary knowledge systems
• Similarities between science and yoga as knowledge-systems
• Difficulties specific to research in the subjective and inner domains
• Integration of yoga-based research with mainstream academics *

10.  Towards a more integral system of education*

• 'Normal' education: derived from cognitive behaviourism *
• 'Free Progress' education: guided by the soul *
• The introduction of consciousness-centred psychology at school-level *
• How this could lead towards a more harmonious society *

11.  Advanced psychology

• Introduction
• The self and the structure of the personality:
  An overview of Sri Aurobindo's terminology
• What makes us what we are?:
  An overview of influences on our personality

12.  Epilogue

• An expression of gratitude °

1.  Related issues

• Classical Behaviourism
• An issue-wise comparison between three concepts of consciousness
• Is schooling injurious to health?

2.  Teaching a consciousness-centred psychology

• Introducing first-person psychology at college level
  • Who am I?
  • My surface personality
  • My character
  • Anyone at home?
• Self and personality: a short outline
• Different ways to classify types of knowing
• How to do small first-person research projects: a student's guide

3.  Biographical and bibliographical notes on Sri Aurobindo

• A short biography of Sri Aurobindo
• A brief survey of Sri Aurobindo's writings
• Short texts by Sri Aurobindo referred to in Infinity in a Drop °

4.  References and glossary

• References *
• Glossary of Sanskrit words °

5.  Stories

• A perfect therapy session
• Oh God, she quarelled again
• Plato's cave and a teashop in Thailand
• What is māyā?
• Involution and evolution
• The first selfie
• The pandit and the milk-maid
• A simple blade of grass
• Churning the ocean °