The Problem of pure consciousness :
The Problem of pure consciousness : mysticism and philosophy /
edited by Robert K.C. Forman.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
- 307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
0195059808 (alk. paper)
89003403
Mysticism.
Consciousness--Religious aspects.
BL 625 / .P76 1990
291.4/22
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.
0195059808 (alk. paper)
89003403
Mysticism.
Consciousness--Religious aspects.
BL 625 / .P76 1990
291.4/22