The mysticism and philosophy Forman, Robert K. C. text bibliography nyu New York Oxford University Press 1990 monographic eng

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307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Summary: This collection of contributed essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience as a constructed and mediated product of previously held beliefs and concepts. Forman and his colleagues argue for the existence of a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines. Contents: Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman -- I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple -- Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths -- Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman -- Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg -- Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond -- Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt -- Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr. -- On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse -- Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler -- Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin. edited by Robert K.C. Forman. Includes bibliographical references. Mysticism Consciousness Religious aspects BL 625 .P76 1990 291.4/22 0195059808 (alk. paper) 89003403 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/89003403-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/89003403-d.html DLC 890323 20151112100952.0 4343138