Mysticism: Its History and ChallengeWeiser Books, 1 Oca 1994 - 456 sayfa Mystical experience is not really understood in our modern Western culture, but we have a rich history and traadition that can be traced from remote ages to the present day. It is a phenomenon common to all religions and races, differing in manifestation, but sharing a similar foundation--the realization from personal experience that all things are interdependent, that the source is One. The mystical experience is often brief, immediate, maybe mysterious--a last experience that rbings all-embracing emotion (love) into the bounds of concrete reality. Bruno Borchert brings mysticism into sharp focus by exploring ideas and concecpts from world religions and explaining Christian mystics in history, in perspective, and through art. He takes us from Zoroaster to European alchemists, explores the Hellenistic world, the feminine world-view, and the experience of God shard by saints and well-known mystics such as St. Theresa and St. Francis. Modern approaches explored by psychologists like Jung and Maslow, and the contemporary search for mystical love make this a necessary book for people who want to understand the spiritual path. |
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Mystical Experience | 3 |
The Mystical Person | 12 |
Mystical Language | 18 |
What Triggers a Mystical Experience? | 25 |
Ecstasy Vision Apparitions Perceptions | 47 |
Origins | 69 |
Mysticism in the East | 79 |
Mysticism in Iran and Israel | 96 |
A Struggle for a Spiritual City | 182 |
GodLover and Beloved | 199 |
A Feminine Worldview | 206 |
Female and Male Mystics | 219 |
The European Phase | 244 |
Continuation of Medieval Mysticism | 273 |
The New Challenge | 305 |
The EgoCulture | 320 |
A New Awareness of Human History | 110 |
A Scientific Worldview | 118 |
The Hellenistic World | 124 |
Answers from the Jewish World | 140 |
Hellenistic Mysticism | 152 |
The Mystical Retreat | 165 |
Western Europe | 171 |
The Many Ways of Mysticism | 327 |
Glossary | 397 |
Glossary of Mystics | 405 |
Spiritual Sourcebooks | 437 |
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