In September of 1976 a group of some fifty scholars and practising mystics gathered at the University of Calgary. The chief objective of the Conference was to ponder and assess the nature of mysticism in its Eastern, Western and North American Indian forms. The method the Conference followed was somewhat unusual in that it aimed at a dialogue between the practising mystics and the scholars.
What this book presents to the reader is not the outcome of the dialogue, but the personal statements and papers from which the dialogue began. Of course there is a degree to which the dialogue is already present, in that the papers of the scholars were written with the statements of the mystics in hand. Among some of the philosophers present, a set of more formal comments on each others presentations was recorded and these have been included.
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- Includes bibliographies
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 291.4/2
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 091981204 9780889208520
- LCCN
- BL625
- LCCN Item number
- C28 1977eb
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- 1 electronic text (viii, 118 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00327014 (OCoLC)144144819 (CaOOCEL)402619
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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS 8
- PREFACE 10
- INTRODUCTION 12
- Mysticism: Its Meaning and Varieties 12
- THE NATURE OF MYSTICISM AS PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED 28
- My Spiritual Discipline 30
- Spiritual Disciplines of a Practising Mystic According to Hinduism 34
- Zen Mystical Practice 38
- The Humanistic Transcendentalist Practice of the Kabbalah 42
- SCHOLARLY ASSESSMENTS OF MYSTICISM 50
- Mystical Experience as Cognition 52
- Reflection on Professor John Hick's "Mystical Experience as Cognition" 68
- Response to Professor John Heintz 72
- The Exploration of Mysticism 74
- Unity and Diversity in The Interpretation of Mysticism 82
- Comments on Penelhum 94
- The Buddhist Path 96
- Levels of Language in Mystical Experience 104
- The Question of "Mysticism" Within Native American Traditions 120
