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Making Peace with the Universe - Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing (Hardcover)
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Making Peace with the Universe - Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing (Hardcover)
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The world’s great religious and philosophical traditions often
include poignant testimonies of spiritual turmoil and healing.
Following episodes of harrowing personal crisis, including
addictions, periods of anxiety and panic, and reminders of
mortality, these accounts then also describe pathways to
consolation and resolution. In Making Peace with the Universe,
Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as
masterpieces of therapeutic insight. In the company of William
James, Socrates, Muslim legal scholar turned mystic Hamid
al-Ghazali, Chinggis Khan as described by the Daoist monk Qui
Chuji, and jazz musician and Catholic convert Mary Lou Williams,
Alexander traces the steps from existential crisis to psychological
health. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of
therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even
in an age of scientific psychology. They record the therapeutic
affect of spiritual experience, testifying to the achievement of
psychological well-being through the cultivation of an edifying
spiritual mood. Mixing scholarly learning with episodes from his
own skeptical quest, Alexander demonstrates how these accounts of
private terror and personal triumph offer a model of therapy
through spiritual adventure. An interdisciplinary consideration of
the shared terrain of religion and psychology, Making Peace with
the Universe offers an innovative view of what spiritual traditions
can teach us about finding meaning in the modern world.
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