The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis

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Author(s): Jordan D. Paper
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 184

PLOTINUS......Page 118
The Mystic Experience......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
AN EVENT......Page 16
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE “EVENT”......Page 18
A NAME FOR THE EXPERIENCE......Page 20
THE MYSTIC EXPERIENCE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT......Page 21
A CAUTION TO READERS......Page 24
NAIVE REPORTS......Page 26
REPORTS BY “PROFESSIONAL” MYSTICS......Page 38
CONCLUSIONS......Page 43
3. The Varieties of Ecstatic Experience......Page 46
HUMAN NATURE AND ECSTATIC EXPERIENCES......Page 48
VISIONS, LUCID DREAMS, AND PROBLEM-SOLVING DREAMS......Page 51
SHAMANISM......Page 53
MEDIUMISM......Page 56
PROPHECY......Page 60
UNITIVE EXPERIENCES......Page 61
PURE CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 63
THE MYSTIC EXPERIENCE......Page 65
4. Previous Studies......Page 68
PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSES......Page 69
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSES......Page 72
SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSES......Page 76
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSES......Page 77
BIOLOGICAL ANALYSES......Page 79
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE STUDIES......Page 85
COMPARATIVE RELIGION STUDIES......Page 87
SHAMANISTIC AND MEDIUMISTIC TRADITIONS......Page 90
THE UPANISHADS......Page 95
HINDUISM......Page 98
BUDDHISM......Page 99
CHINESE RELIGION......Page 104
JUDAISM......Page 120
CATHOLICISM......Page 128
ORTHODOXY......Page 135
ISLAM......Page 139
MODERN “SECULAR” MYSTICISM......Page 144
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 146
ABSOLUTE CONSCIOUSNESS......Page 148
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT......Page 152
COMPARATIVE ETHNOHERMENEUTICS......Page 156
SUMMARY......Page 169
Works Consulted......Page 172
G......Page 182
P......Page 183
Z......Page 184