Death, dying, and mysticism: the ecstasy of the end

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Ars Moriendi after Kant's turn to the subject / Thomas Cattoi -- Lady Jacopa and Francis: mysticism and the management of Francis of Assisi's deathbed story / Darleen Pryds -- Mystical dying in contemporary autobiographies / Lucy Bregman -- Traces of resurrection : the pattern of Simone Weil's mysticism / Stuart Jesson -- Thoreau's religious response to death / Robert Michael Ruehl -- You create your own reality : the fallacy of death in Jane Roberts' Seth material / Cynthia A. Hogan -- Symbolic death of the subject in the structure of Jacques Lacan / Jin sook kim -- Anomalous experiences and the bereavement process / Callum E. Cooper, Chris A. Roe, and Graham Mitchell -- Heaven is for real and America's fascination with near-death experiences / Candy Guenther Brown -- Mystical knowledge and near death experience / Lee Irwin -- The experience of death as non-death / Jordan Paper -- Death visions of the Goddess Kali : the Bengali Shakta corpse ritual at the burning ground / June Mcdaniel -- Samdhi as true death in the yogas'tra / Lloyd W. Pflueger -- At our end is the beginning : death as the liminal real in the art of Frida Kahlo / June-Ann Greeley -- Modern requiem compositions and musical knowledge of death and afterlife / Martin J. Hoondert. Ars Moriendi after Kant's turn to the subject / Thomas Cattoi -- Lady Jacopa and Francis: mysticism and the management of Francis of Assisi's deathbed story / Darleen Pryds -- Mystical dying in contemporary autobiographies / Lucy Bregman -- Traces of resurrection : the pattern of Simone Weil's mysticism / Stuart Jesson -- Thoreau's religious response to death / Robert Michael Ruehl -- You create your own reality : the fallacy of death in Jane Roberts' Seth material / Cynthia A. Hogan -- Symbolic death of the subject in the structure of Jacques Lacan / Jin sook kim -- Anomalous experiences and the bereavement process / Callum E. Cooper, Chris A. Roe, and Graham Mitchell -- Heaven is for real and America's fascination with near-death experiences / Candy Guenther Brown -- Mystical knowledge and near death experience / Lee Irwin -- The experience of death as non-death / Jordan Paper -- Death visions of the Goddess Kali : the Bengali Shakta corpse ritual at the burning ground / June Mcdaniel -- Samdhi as true death in the yogas'tra / Lloyd W. Pflueger -- At our end is the beginning : death as the liminal real in the art of Frida Kahlo / June-Ann Greeley -- Modern requiem compositions and musical knowledge of death and afterlife / Martin J. Hoondert.