Introduction -- The Subjective Experience: a brief review -- Two mentalistic portraits: the book and its content -- Workings of the mind: consciousness and the unconscious -- The unfolding of Life: the genetic endowment -- The evolutionary archetypes: values and needs -- One of the line: values and needs -- Affective connectedness: the qualia web -- Talking to the stars: the quanta web -- Putting it all together -- Some closing reflections -- References.