The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the
contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to
elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how
its practitioners understand it. This anthology features
contributions that point out that contemporary studies of
consciousness, sociology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, medicine, and
other fields, are revealing that there is much more to be said for
the inner life of a human's consciousness than reductionists and
behaviorists will allow. This book is one of very few that
primarily takes the stance of academic practitioners, explaining
their own experience, rather than that of academics trying to
explain the phenomena away, as really politics, or sociology, or
delusion, or psychological pathology, or literary flights of fancy,
or an aberration of any of the other academic fields. Most of the
authors in this volume embrace the task of explaining and analyzing
religious experience, mysticism, and the healing power of silence
and presence, using the resources of all of the academic
disciplines, as appropriate. The essays contained analyze
religious, and non-religious, mystical and profoundly personal
experiences across several world religions, and in areas such as
art and music, as well as in solving personal crises such as family
disruption and patriarchal oppression. The authors address the
subject matter through analyses of the frequent and destructive
failures of language, or just noise, to capture or express the
nuances of the inner life of a person. It is this very ineffability
of self that renders the spiritual, emotional and interior life of
individuals beyond cognition and perception, of the straightforward
sorts embraced by most cognitive disciplines. The contributors come
from a variety of cross-disciplinary fields to bring forth the
possibilities for an intuitive and creative, rich and growing inner
life for a human. This text appeals to students, researchers, and
practitioners.
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