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The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy » Read Now
by Robert K. C. Forman. 245 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's well-received collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system--a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to...
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This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's well-received collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system--a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to deconstruction in general and to the "constructivist" school of mysticism in particular, which holds that all mysticism is the product of a cultural and linguistic process. In The Innate Capacity, Forman and his colleagues put forward a hypothesis about the formative causes of these "pure consciousness" experiences. All of the contributors agree that mysticism is the result of an innate human capacity, rather than a learned, socially conditioned and constructive process. The innate capacity is understood in several different ways. Many perceive it as an expression of human consciousness per se, awareness itself. Some hold that consciousness should be understood as a built-in link to some hidden, transcendent aspect of the world, and that a mystical experience is the experience of that inherent connectedness. Another thesis that appears frequently is that mystics realize this innate capacity through a process of releasing the hold of the ego and the conceptual system. The contributors here look at mystical experience as it is manifested in a variety of religious and cultural settings, including Hindu Yoga, Buddhism, Sufism, and medieval Christianity. Taken together, the essays constitute an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature of human consciousness and mystical experience and its relation to the social and cultural contexts in which it appears.
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The Psychology of Religious Mysticism (1925) » Read Now
by James H. Leuba. 348 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Scientific Method The Psychology of Religious Mysticism -ii- The Psychology of Religious Mysticism By JAMES H. LEUBA PROFESSOR...Little of value on Christian mysticism from...
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Understanding Mysticism » Read Now
by Richard Woods. 588 pgs.

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...The Meaning of Mysticism as Seen through Its Psychology abridged from...of Christian Mysticism from STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MYSTICS...courses on the psychology and...
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Understanding Mysticism, in The Psychological Record » Read Now
by Linda J. Hayes. 23 pgs.

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Mysticism, Reality, Illusion, and the Freudian Critique of Religion, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion » Read Now
by Ralph W. Hood Jr. 19 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION , 2(3...Associates, Inc. Mysticism, Reality, Illusion...a Delphic oracle Mysticism -- the obscure selfperception of the realm...
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The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism » Read Now
by William B. Parsons. 252 pgs.

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This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "oceanic feeling." Providing a corrective to current views which frame psychoanalysis as pathologizing mysticism, Parsons...
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This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, starting with the seminal correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland concerning the concept of "oceanic feeling." Providing a corrective to current views which frame psychoanalysis as pathologizing mysticism, Parsons reveals the existence of three models entertained by Freud and Rolland: the classical reductive, ego-adaptive, and transformational (which allows for a transcendent dimension to mysticism). Then, reconstructing Rolland's personal mysticism (the "oceanic feeling") through texts and letters unavailable to Freud, Parsons argues that Freud misinterpreted the oceanic feeling. In offering a fresh interpretation of Rolland's mysticism, Parsons constructs a new dialogical approach for psychoanalytic theory of mysticism which integrates culture studies, developmental perspectives, and the deep epistemological and transcendent claims of the mystics.
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Mysticism and the Modern Mind » Read Now
by Alfred P. Stiernotte. 210 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1957 ; James H. Leuba, The Psychology of Religious Mysticism New York, 1925 ; Jean-Paul...breathing, as secular as the psychology of reading or conversing. But...the...
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The Psychology of Religion: Theoretical Approaches (Chap. 17 "The Empirical Study of Mysticism") » Read Now
by Daniel N. McIntosh, Bernard Spilka. 284 pgs.

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Theory in the psychology of religion is undergoing rapid development, and this book demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that will in turn encourage exploration in many directions.
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The Psychology of Religion: An Introduction to Religious Experience and Behavior (Chap. 12 "Mysticism") » Read Now
by Walter Houston Clark. 485 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library
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Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology (1920) » Read Now
by Knight Dunlap. 178 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...PSYCHOLOGY MYSTICISM, FREUDIANISM...SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY BY KNIGHT...PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL...philosophical mysticism and in spiritualism...a spread of the so-called...
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Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition » Read Now
by David Bakan. 326 pgs.

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...Professor of Psychology University of Missouri...of Jewish mysticism; and where...fundamental concept, of psychology, of human...distant from psychology." 1...The choice...
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Schreber's Soul-Voluptuousness: Mysticism, Madness and the Feminine in Schreber's Memoirs, in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology » Read Now
by Brent Dean Robbins. 37 pgs.

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Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912) » Read Now
by Evelyn Underhill. 600 pgs.

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...subject of mysticism. Exhibiting...the point of view of metaphysics, psychology, and symbolism...evidence of psychology. For the benefit of those whose interest in...
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Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology (Chap. 14 "Transpersonal Psychology: Roots in Christian Mysticism") » Read Now
by John R. Battista, Allan B. Chinen, Bruce W. Scotton. 443 pgs.

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Transliminality: Its Relation to Dream Life, Religiosity, and Mystical Experience, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion » Read Now
by Michael A. Thalbourne, Peter S. Delin. 17 pgs.

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