The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis (SUNY Series in Religious Studies) - Softcover

Paper, Jordan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791462501 ISBN 13: 9780791462508

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The mystic, zero, or void experience—the ecstatic disappearance of self along with everything else—is considered by those who have had it to be the most beautiful, blissful, positive, profound, and significant experience of their lives. Offering both a descriptive and a comparative perspective, this book explores the mystic experience across cultures as both a human and cultural event. The book begins and ends with descriptions of the author's own mystical experiences, and looks at self-reported experiences by individuals who do not link their experiences to a religious tradition, to determine characteristics of this universal human experience.

These characteristics are compared to statements of acknowledged mystics in diverse religious traditions. The mystic experience is also situated within other ecstatic religious experiences to distinguish it from similar, but distinct, experiences such as lucid dreams, shamanism, and mediumism. Jordan Paper goes on to look at how the mystic experience has been considered in various fields, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, biology, and comparative religious studies.

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Jordan Paper is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at York University and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He has written several books, including Offering Smoke: The Sacred Pipe and Native American Religion and The Chinese Way in Religion, Second Edition (coedited with Laurence G. Thompson).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791462501
• ISBN 13: 9780791462508
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 186
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