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This wide-ranging book covers all the major religious traditions, while exploring monistic and theistic mysticism, and such key issues as altered states of consciousness, sex, and visionary experiences.
Author : Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher : ONEWorld
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781435684652
This wide-ranging book covers all the major religious traditions, while exploring monistic and theistic mysticism, and such key issues as altered states of consciousness, sex, and visionary experiences.
Author : Sidney Spencer
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Author : Steven T. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Author : James S. Cutsinger
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780941532419
Anthology of nearly two thousand years of Christian mystical writings from Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant perspectives.
Author : John Mabry
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933993263
Mystics are not popular amongst the orthodox of any religion. In fact, almost every one of the religious leaders who founded world religions began their careers as mystics who spoke about what they had seen, and were promptly declared heretics. Just think of the Buddha, of Jesus, or of Muhammad. All of them were heretics, all of them were mystics, and all of them changed the way we view reality. Once the mystical vision hits you, you realize that everything you thought you were is a lie, that the universe you thought you were living in is gone, and that all the rules and structures by which you ordered your life are meaningless. It is disorienting and painful. There is no lazy man's path to enlightenment, because once enlightenment hits, the lazy man no longer exists, and the luminous being which has taken his place is beyond recognition, even to himself.
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438486340
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach mystical experiences and mysticism. It discusses the problem of definitions of “mystical experiences” and “mysticism” and advances characterizations of “mystical experiences” in terms of certain altered states of consciousness and “mysticism” in terms of encompassing ways of life centered on such experiences and states. Types of mystical experiences, enlightened states, paths, and doctrines are discussed, as is the relation of mystical experiences and mysticism to religions and cultures. The approaches of constructivism, contextualism, essentialism, and perennialism are presented. Themes in the history of the world’s major mystical traditions are set forth. Approaches to mystical phenomena in sociology, psychology, gender studies, and neuroscience are introduced. Basic philosophical issues related to whether mystical experiences are veridical and mystical claims valid, mystics’ problems of language, art, and morality are laid out. Older and newer comparative approaches in religious studies and in Christian theology are discussed, along with postmodernist objections. The intended audience is undergraduates and the general public interested in the general issues related to mysticism.
Author : Edward Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9780195021844
Author : Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Jesus Christ in the Koran
ISBN :
Author : Michael York
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781527535114
As a non-dogmatic religion, paganism is a spiritualty that is variously interpreted in terms of nature worship, this-worldliness, the valuing of the physical, and multiple understandings of the sacred. Like most religions, pagan spirituality also entertains the experience of mystical ecstasy as an intense state of psycho-spiritual consciousness that radically diverges from ordinary waking awareness. This volume addresses two fundamental questions, namely: ?Ç£how do the world?ÇÖs religions understand the mystical and its pursuit??Ç¥, and ?Ç£how and why does paganism offer something different??Ç¥ Proverbially, the mystical quest is an ultimate human endeavour. The re-emergence of pagan thought in contemporary times challenges the obsolete and unlocks both innovation and available forms of transpersonal emancipation.
Author : Timothy Freke
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9780749917760
The Complete Guide to World Mysticism begins with a general introduction to the traditions and history of mysticism. It then moves on to deal with mysticism within the context of religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, and other less orthodox traditions such as Shamanism and the Mystery Schools.