Vol. I: View From the Center In the lectures contained in this volume Swami Vivekananda lays the logical foundation for a dynamic and inclusive universal religion. He argues the necessity of total freedom while providing a coherent metaphysics and psychology of the mind, upon which much of contemporary transpersonal psychology appears to have been built. The model provided in this first volume feeds into all the explanations contained in the remainder of the series. For Swami Vivekananda, the religions of the world are all prototypes of transcendental Reality, various doors through which our feelings and wills can open out into the Infinite, and the Infinite can in turn, express itself. This grand view of spirituality is what Swami Vivekananda has reawakened for our modern world.