The Awakened Ones : : Phenomenology of Visionary Experience / / Gananath Obeyesekere.
While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational...
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Obeyesekere, Gananath, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Awakened Ones : Phenomenology of Visionary Experience / Gananath Obeyesekere. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (644 p.) : 11 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings -- Book 2. Mahāyāna: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision -- Book 3. The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals -- Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul -- Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason -- Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East -- Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming -- Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth -- Envoi-Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer'S Dream and the Return of the Vultures -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding.Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term "dream-ego" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Visions Comparative studies. RELIGION / Comparative Religion. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231153621 https://doi.org/10.7312/obey15362 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231527309 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231527309/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings -- Book 2. Mahāyāna: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision -- Book 3. The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals -- Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul -- Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason -- Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East -- Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming -- Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth -- Envoi-Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer'S Dream and the Return of the Vultures -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings -- Book 2. Mahāyāna: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision -- Book 3. The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals -- Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul -- Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason -- Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East -- Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming -- Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth -- Envoi-Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer'S Dream and the Return of the Vultures -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index |
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