Shalini Masih grew up as a child in a stimulating environment of priests and healers, witnessing firsthand states of spirit possession along with its potential to heal. In adulthood, her psychoanalytic training prompted her to revisit these experiences from a critical perspective, motivating her to take the tools of psychoanalysis outside the ......
With contributions by scholars from different religions and specializations, this volume explores the potential of nondualism as a fundamentally unifying concept. In every case, we find that nondualism is universal in its relevance yet distinctive and original in its contribution.
Mysticism is an element of religion or spirituality which emphasizes direct apprehension of the divine, whether the divine is understood from a theistic or non-theistic perspective. The author argues that such "mystical" experiences can be gained through the practice of specialized techniques of spiritual transformation, techniques which have been ......
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully.
Dreams Beyond Time describes a variety of dream types related to non-ordinary and exceptional dreams, including mythic, paranormal, and transpersonal dreaming. The book describes a metaphysics of discovery as intrinsic to dreaming in a pan-sentience cosmos, where dreams reveal human potential for personal spiritual development.
Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason's Light
Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant's early criticism of Swedenborg's mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason's light.
This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance, richness and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), and several key theories of the sacred, in the context of theological and philosophical ontology.
This book embarks on scholarly investigations of mystical phenomena, including shamanism, near-death experiences, and the paranormal. Contributors address queries such as why religious experiences are ineffable, what the explanatory mechanisms of altered states of consciousness are, and how literature and art express the mystical.
