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Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations

By Paul Marshall

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0199279438, 9780199279432, 9781423769743
Open Library ID
OL22631282M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2413827 bytes)
Pages
338\337
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R. M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W. R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R. C. Zaehner, W. T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience.

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