TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forman,Robert K.C.
TI  - The Problem of pure consciousness: mysticism and philosophy 
SN  - 0195059808 (alk. paper)
AV  - BL 625 .P76 1990
U1  - 291.4/22 20
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Religious aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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