Mystical Encounters with the Natural World : Experiences and Explanations

Paul Marshall

ISBN 10: 0199279438 / ISBN 13: 9780199279432

Editore: Oxford University Press (UK) Sep 2005, 2005

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Neuware - Mystical 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 surveys and evaluates a wide range of explanations put forward by religious thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and offers his own perspective on the nature of these experiences.

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• Titolo: Mystical Encounters with the Natural World : Experiences and Explanations
• Editore: Oxford University Press (UK) Sep 2005
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199279438
• ISBN 13: 9780199279432
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Paul Marshall is an independent scholar with research interests in the philosophy and psychology of religion, the philosophy of mind, and the study of science and religion.