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Lives in spirit : precursors and dilemmas of a secular Western mysticism /

"Lives in Spirit explores the dynamic conflicts that both energized and distorted the spiritual development of key precursor figures of a contemporary secular or "this-worldly" mysticism. With its historical roots in the early Gnostics and Plotinus, this characteristically Western spi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hunt, Harry T., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
Colección:SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Psychological and Cultural Bases of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Modern Western Society
  • Ch. 1 Phenomenology and Psychodynamics of Transpersonal Experience
  • Ch. 2 A.H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Spiritual Development and Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory
  • Ch. 3 Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch
  • pt. II Historical Roots of Inner-Worldly Mysticism: Prototypes of Crisis and Resolution in Plotinus, Epictetus, and Gnosticism
  • Ch. 4 Plotinus and Hellenistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism
  • Ch. 5 Gnosticism: Mystical Dualism and the Metaphysics of Hate
  • pt. III Transpersonal Anticipations and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Precursors to a Naturalistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism
  • Ch. 6 Nietzsche
  • Ch. 7 Emerson, Thoreau, and Hiram Marble: New England Transcendentalism and a Brief Look at Spiritualism
  • pt. IV Some Political Ambiguities in the Development of Presence: Inner-Worldly Mysticism, Metapathology, and National Socialism
  • Ch. 8 Jung, Visionary Racial Occultism, and Hitler
  • Ch. 9 "Triumph of the Will": Heidegger's Nazism as Spiritual Pathology
  • pt. V Roots of a Contemporary This-Worldly Spirituality
  • Ch. 10 George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: A Near Eastern Inner-Worldly Mysticism in the Modern West
  • Ch. 11 Aleister Crowley, Sexual Magick, and Drugs: Some Ambiguities of Sex, Will, and Power in Inner-Worldly Mysticism
  • Ch. 12 Feminist Spirituality: The Return of Sophia
  • pt. VI Transpersonal Psychology, New Age Spirituality, and the Human Sciences
  • Ch. 13 Concluding Reflections.