Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness

Seattle, WA: SUNY Press (1999)
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Challenges the prevailing view that mystical experience is shaped by language and culture and argues that mystical experience is a direct encounter with consciousness itself.

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0791441709   9780791441701   0791441695  

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10.1515/9781438403021

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Chapters

1. Mystics and Constructivists.  (pages 1-8)
2. Reports of Pure Consciousness Events.  (pages 11-30)
3. Of Horses and Horse Carts.  (pages 31-54)
4. Non-Linguistic Mediation.  (pages 55-80)
5. Buddhists and Constructivism.  (pages 81-92)
6. Of Horse Carts and Space Capsules Constructive Language and Spiritual Techniques.  (pages 95-108)
7. Knowledge by Identity.  (pages 109-128)
8. Silence, Thinking, and Cutting Carrots Characterizing an Advanced Mystical State.  (pages 131-152)
9. The Janus-Faced Soul An Epistemology of the Dualistic Mystical State.  (pages 153-168)
10. Concluding Remarks.  (pages 169-172)
Bibliography.  (pages 201-210)
Index.  (pages 211-217)

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