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Author: Gananath Obeyesekere Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231527306 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 645
Book Description
While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding. Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term "dream-ego" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231527306 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 645
Book Description
While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding. Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term "dream-ego" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.
Author: Elliot J. Huntley Publisher: Guernica Editions ISBN: 9781550711974 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 354
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This biography of Harrison's post-Beatles life celebrates his career as a musician and independent filmmaker. Analysing Harrison's solo albums as well as his work with the Travelling Wilburys, this work also incorporates Harrison's final album, Brainwashed. Delving into the ex-Beatle's personal life, the book examines Harrison's high-profile divorce from Patti Boyd, his battles with cancer, and a near-death experience at the hands of an attacker in 1999.
Author: Seyed Ghahreman Safavi Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438428014 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 293
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Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumī’s Mathnawī, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training.
Author: Jerome Kroll Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113429767X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.
Author: John P. Dourley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135240124 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 271
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Jung's explanation of the religious tendency of the psyche addresses many sides of the contemporary debate on religion and the role that it has in individual and social life. This book discusses the emergence of a new mythic consciousness and details ways in which this consciousness supersedes traditional concepts of religion to provide a spirituality of more universal inclusion. On Behalf of the Mystical Fool examines Jung's critique of traditional western religion, demonstrating the negative consequences of religious and political collective unconsciousness, and their consequent social irresponsibility in today's culture. The book concludes by suggesting that a new religiosity and spirituality is currently emerging in the West based on the individual’s access to the sense of ultimacy residual in the psyche, and seeking expression in a myth of a much wider compass. This book will be of interest to scholars and students at all levels who are engaged in the expanding field of Jungian studies. It will also be key reading for anyone interested in the theoretical and therapeutic connections between the psyche and religious experience.
Author: Ai Gvhdi Waya Publisher: Light Technology Publishing ISBN: 9780929385471 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 130
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Our best teachers are inside ourselves. Ai Gvhdi Waya shares her own journey through Native American stories of her discovery — and how you can access th emany teachers, too. Learn how to trust your own knowing and follow your heart. Walk the path of the mystic and understand how you can do that on a daily basis. Being a mystic gives us the opportunity to transform from chrysalis into butterfly. This gift is available to all of us.
Author: Michel de Certeau Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 392
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The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.
Author: Hidayat Khan Publisher: Ekstasis Editions ISBN: 9780921215660 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 132
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Sufi Teachings delves deep into modern Western Sufi philosophy to chart a path for the seeker after Truth. Seldom has the seeker's path been so accessible or clearly defined as in this collection of lectures gleaned from inspiring moments at an annual Sufi retreat high in the Canadian Rockies.
Author: Richard van Leeuwen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900436269X Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 842
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It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature. This study analyses the influence of Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, on 20th-century prose from all over the world. Works of approximately forty authors are examined: those who were crucial to the development of the main currents in 20th-century fiction, such as modernism, magical realism and post-modernism. The book contains six thematic sections divided into chapters discussing two or three authors/works, each from a narratological perspective and supplemented by references to the cultural and literary context. It is shown how Thousand and One Nights became deeply rooted in modern world literature especially in phases of renewal and experiment.
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Author: Elliot J. Huntley
Author: Seyed Ghahreman Safavi
Author: Jerome Kroll
Author: John P. Dourley
Author: Ai Gvhdi Waya
Author: Michel de Certeau
Author: Hidayat Khan
Author: Ian Richard Netton
Author: Richard van Leeuwen