| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 324 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. I. The experiences -- 1. Extrovertive mystical experience : definition and incidence -- 2. 'Being all, knowing all, loving all' : phenomenology -- 3. Sex, drugs, and Beethoven? : circumstances and consequences -- pt. II. The explanations -- 4. Divine cosmos : encountering spirit in nature -- 5. Empty your mind : uncovering pure consciousness -- 6. Scholars lock horns : construction or deconstruction? -- 7. On the couch, in the lab : pathology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience -- 8. Mind beyond the brain : reducing valves and metaphysics -- 9. Fashions, failures, prospects |
| Summary |
This study explores a wide range of mysterious phenomena and the explanations put forward by religious thinkers, philosophers and scientists. He also offers his own perspective on the nature of these experiences |
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Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R.M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W.R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R.C. Zaehner, W.T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-308) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mysticism -- Psychology
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Psychology
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RELIGION -- Mysticism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Mysticism.
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Mysticism -- Psychology
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Mystiek.
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Natuur.
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Religieuze ervaring.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423769740 |
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9781423769743 |
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0199279438 |
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9780199279432 |
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