Foreword -- I. The world as it is? -- II. Understanding the understander -- III. The king, the fisherman, and the moon -- IV. Rosalita revisited -- V. Enigma of the ontological negative VI. Communion of non-worlds -- VII. Word and World -- VIII. Existential well being -- IX. Biopsychosocial health -- X. Of physicians and fairies -- XI. Sinfonia Hotamatua -- XII. In the shadow of the bush -- XIII. Four oaths and a visit to the flower of chivalry -- XIV The brief and solitary life of the Desert Five Spot -- XV. Wild strawberries in a slavic woodland -- XVI. Stray Indian birds -- Exitus -- Author