The Innate Capacity : Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy.

The Innate Capacity : Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy.

A sequel to Forman's collection "The Problem of Pure Consciousness" (OUP, 1990). The scholars in this book put forward a hypothesis about the cause of mystical, or "pure consciousness" experiences. They look at mystical experience as manifested in a variety of religious and...

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Main Author: Forman, Robert K. C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Mysticism > Psychology.
Mysticism > Comparative studies.
Mysticism
Mysticism > Psychology
Comparative studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Contributors; ONE: Introduction: Mystical Consciousness, the Innate Capacity, and the Perennial Philosophy; TWO: Discriminating the Innate Capacity: Salvation Mysticism of Classical Samkya-Yoga; THREE: Parables of Deconstruction in the Lotus Sutra; FOUR: Between the Yes and the No: Ibn al-'Arabi on Wujud and the Innate Capacity; FIVE: Mysticism, Mediation, and Consciousness: The Innate Capacity in John Ruusbroec; SIX: The Innate Capacity: Jung and the Mystical Imperative; SEVEN: The Swami and the Rorschach: Spiritual Practice, Religious Experience, and Perception.
  • EIGHT: William James and the Origins of Mystical ExperienceNINE: Innate Mystical Capacities and the Nature of the Self; TEN: Postconstructivist Approaches to Mysticism.

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