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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2003.
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Colección: | SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.