Mystical experience
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TextBaltimore, MD Penguin Books c1973Description: 195p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 014003904X
- B828 .S296 1974
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1st published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis, 1973.. Published by Penguin Books Ind., 1974.
1 On the understanding of mystical experience. 2 The superlative states of mysticism. 3 Personal and pragmatic defences of mysticism. 4 Logical and metaphysical defences of mysticism. 5 Everyday mysticism. 6 Creators' mysticism. 7 Mystical techniques. 8 Freud's psychoanalysis and Patanjali's yoga. 9 Psychotic mysticsm. 10 Eleven quintessences of the mystic state
'...a rational look at the types, techniques, defenses and claims of mysticism as practiced in both East and West....his aim is to understand rather than attack something that, in a very broad sense, he calls "a name for our infinite appetites." He considers the mysticism that may emerge in both science and art, compares the psychoanalysis of Freud with the yoga of Patanjali, and healthy mysticism with psychotic. His book...is written not only with great lucidity but with an unexpected and conspicuous charm.'
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