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The Problem of pure consciousness : mysticism and philosophy / edited by Robert K.C. Forman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.Description: 307 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0195059808 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.4/22 20
LOC classification:
  • BL 625 .P76 1990
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents:
Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman -- I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple -- Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths -- Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman -- Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg -- Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond -- Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt -- Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr. -- On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse -- Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler -- Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin.
Summary: Summary:Summary: This collection of contributed essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience as a constructed and mediated product of previously held beliefs and concepts. Forman and his colleagues argue for the existence of a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman --
I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple --
Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths --
Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman --
Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg --
Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond --
Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt --
Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr. --
On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse --
Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler --
Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin.

Summary:

This collection of contributed essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience as a constructed and mediated product of previously held beliefs and concepts. Forman and his colleagues argue for the existence of a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines.