| Foreword: Natura Naturans and Natura Naturata | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Semiotics and Metaphysics | 1 |
| 1 | Ecstatic Naturalism | 16 |
| The Four Naturalisms | 16 |
| The Chora, Death, and Transfiguration | 26 |
| Beyond Language | 32 |
| Positioning, Repositioning, and Depositioning | 42 |
| The Unconscious of Nature | 48 |
| Spirit, Negativity, and Semiosis | 52 |
| The Consummation of Naturalism | 60 |
| 2 | Infinite Semiosis | 67 |
| The Prospective and the Not Yet | 67 |
| First Dimension of Signification: Local and Regional Traits | 74 |
| Second Dimension of Signification: Serial Intersection | 86 |
| Third Dimension of Signification: Temporality, Introspection, and Intersubjectivity | 94 |
| Fourth Dimension of Signification: World Semiosis and the Spirit | 102 |
| Fifth Dimension of Signification: Signs, Traces, and Nature's Unconscious | 105 |
| Sixth Dimension of Signification: The Postsemiotic and the Return of the Positive | 111 |
| 3 | Betweenness | 116 |
| The Self-Giving Ground | 116 |
| Between Nature Naturing and Nature Natured: Emptying | 122 |
| Between the Chora and World Semiosis: Denial | 130 |
| Between the Open Infinite and the Processive Infinite: Enabling | 138 |
| Between the Potencies and the Archetypes: Evoking | 149 |
| Developmental Teleology and the Incarnation of Spirit | 156 |
| 4 | Meaning and Mystery | 160 |
| Natural Embodiment | 160 |
| Natural Communication | 167 |
| Courage and the Gestalt of Grace | 171 |
| Beyond Anthropocentrism: Umwelten | 178 |
| The Horizons of the Human Process | 184 |
| Mystery, the Archetypes, and the Return of the Material Maternal | 190 |
| References | 205 |
| Index | 215 |