Mysticism : : Experience, Response, and Empowerment /

Mysticism : : Experience, Response, and Empowerment / / Jess Hollenback.

This sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely ign...

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Hollenback, Jess,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©1996
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (656 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Mystical Experience: Its Principal Features and Accompaniments
  • Book One: The Nature of Mystical Experience
  • 1. The Mystical Experience: A Preliminary Reconnaissance
  • 2. Distinctive Features of the Mystical Experience
  • 3. The Nature of Mystical Illumination
  • 4. The Fundamental Contextuality of Mystical Experience
  • 5. Recollection and Mystical Experience
  • 6. Mystical Experience and Schizophrenic Experience
  • 7. What Is Mystical Experience?
  • Book Two: Psychological and Parapsychological Aspects of Mystical Experience
  • 8. The Phenomenon of Ex-stasis and Its Variations
  • 9. Enthymesis: The Ex-static Recollective Empowerment of the Mind, Will, and Imagination
  • 10. Is Empowerment Unusual?
  • 11. Recollection, Empowerment, and the Genesis of Paranormal Phenomena
  • 12. The "Active" Approach for Inducing Paranormal Manifestations After Recollective Quiet
  • 13. The "Passive" Approach for Inducing Paranormal Manifestations After Recollective Quiet
  • 14. Empowerment in the Writings of the Mystics
  • 15. Why Paranormal Phenomena Are Not of Marginal Significance for Understanding Mysticism
  • PART II. HOW TRADITION SHAPES BOTH THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AND THE MYSTIC'S RESPONSES TO IT
  • Book Three: Mysticism Among the Oglala Lakota: The Visions of Black Elk
  • 16. The Historical Setting of Black Elk's Life
  • 17. Black Elk's Great Vision
  • 18. Three Major Characteristics of Black Elk's Great Vision
  • 19. Principal Characteristics of Lakota Power
  • 20. Black Elk's Criteria of Discernment
  • 21. Black Elk's Response to His Great Vision
  • 22. Black Elk's Dog Vision
  • 23. Black Elk and the Ghost Dance
  • 24. Black Elk's Conversion to Christianity
  • Book Four: The Mysticism of Saint Teresa of Avila
  • 25. Why Study Saint Teresa?
  • 26. A Biographical Sketch of Saint Teresa of Avila
  • 27. Saint Teresa's Recollective Technique
  • 28. Distinctive Features of Saint Teresa's Prayer States
  • 29. Medieval Influences on Saint Teresa's Mysticism
  • 30. Saint Teresa's Criteria of Discernment
  • 31. The Contextuality of the Most Elevated States of Spiritual Perfection and Mystical Awareness
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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