Lives in Spirit Precursors and Dilemmas of a Secular Western Mysticism

Name: Lives in Spirit Precursors and Dilemmas of a Secular Western Mysticism
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ISBN: 9780791458044

ISBN-10: 0791458040

ISBN-13: 9780791458044

Edition: 2003

Authors: Harry T. Hunt

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 8/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 369
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Psychological and Cultural Bases of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Modern Western Society



Phenomenology and Psychodynamics of Transpersonal Experience



A. H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Spiritual Development and Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory



The Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch



The Historical Roots of Inner-Worldly Mysticism: Prototypes of Crisis and Resolution in Plotinus, Epictetus, and Gnosticism



Plotinus and Hellenistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism



Gnosticism: Mystical Dualism and the Metaphysics of Hate



Transpersonal Anticipations and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Precursors to a Naturalistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism



Nietzsche



Emerson, Thoreau, and Hiram Marble: New England Transcendentalism and a Brief Look at Spiritualism



Some Political Ambiguities in the Development of Presence: Inner-Worldly Mysticism, Metapathology, and National Socialism



Jung, Visionary Racial Occultism, and Hitler



"Triumph of the Will": Heidegger's Nazism as Spiritual Pathology



Roots of a Contemporary This-Worldly Spirituality



George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: A Near Eastern Inner-Worldly Mysticism in the Modern West



Aleister Crowley, Sexual Magick, and Drugs: Some Ambiguities of Sex, Will, and Power in Inner-Worldly Mysticism



Feminist Spirituality: The Return of Sophia



Transpersonal Psychology, New Age Spirituality, and the Human Sciences



Concluding Reflections


Notes


References


Index