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Explores the roots of modern transpersonal psychology and spirituality through psychobiography.

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Author:   Harry T. Hunt
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9780791458037

ISBN 10:   0791458032
Pages:   369
Publication Date:   01 August 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Psychological and Cultural Bases of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Modern Western Society 1. Phenomenology and Psychodynamics of Transpersonal Experience Descriptive Phenomenologies Personal Development, Psychodynamics, and Metapathology 2. A.H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Spiritual Development and Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory Almaas, Transpersonal Psychology, and Psychodynamic Perspectives Multiple Forms of Essence: A Cartography of the Numinous Issues and Controversies 3. The Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch Max Weber on Radical Salvation Movements Inner-Worldly Mysticism as the ""Secret Religion of the Educated Classes"" Dilemmas and Societal Implications of Contemporary Inner-Worldly Mysticism Part II: The Historical Roots of Inner-Worldly Mysticism: Prototypes of Crisis and Resolution in Plotinus, Epictetus, and Gnosticism 4. Plotinus and Hellenistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism Epictetus and Personal Presence Plotinus and the Formless Dimensions Cognition and Contemplation: The Plotinian Psychology of Silberer and Jung, and the Origins of Transpersonal Psychology Object-Relational Patterns in Plotinian Contemplation: Mirroring and Splitting Plotinus on the Metapathologies of the Gnostics 5. Gnosticism: Mystical Dualism and the Metaphysics of Hate The Elements and Social Background of Gnosticism Some Specific Gnosticisms: Metapathologies and Implied Dynamics Egyptian Hermeticism Barbelites, Cainites, Ophites, and Sethians: Mystical Satirists of the Old Testament Valentinus and Ptolemy: Heterodox Christian Gnostics and the Redemption of Sophia Manichaeanism: A Radical Prophetical Dualism ""Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself "": The Problem of Splitting in Mystical Gnosticism Freud's Gnostic Metapsychology of the Newborn Part III: Transpersonal Anticipations and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Precursors to a Naturalistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism 6. Nietzsche Aspects of Essence in Nietzsche's Thought and Experience Nietzsche's Life: Dynamics and Tragedy Relations between Pathology, Creativity, and Essential States in Nietzsche The Nietzschean Psychologists and Abraham Maslow 7. Emerson, Thoreau, and Hiram Marble: New England Transcendentalism and a Brief Look at Spiritualism Emerson's Eternal Moment of Being Dynamics and Openings to Essence in Emerson's Life Thoreau: The Woods of Concord as Mirror of the Soul Thoreau's Life and Dynamics Hiram Marble and Spiritualism: Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith at Dungeon Rock Part IV: Some Political Ambiguities in the Development of Presence: Inner-Worldly Mysticism, Metapathology, and National Socialism 8. Jung, Visionary Racial Occultism, and Hitler Self, Archetypes, and Collective Unconscious Carl Jung's Dance with the Devil Narcissistic Vulnerability in Jung's Development From ""Collective Unconscious"" to ""Objective Psyche"": Jung's Shift from Pseudo-Biology to a Cognition of Metaphor Aryan Racial Occultism: Why Jung Is not a Nazi Hitler as Charismatic Prophet Max Weber on Spirituality and Politics 9. ""Triumph of the Will"": Heidegger's Nazism as Spiritual Pathology Heidegger as Spiritual Thinker The Rectorship Heidegger's Spiritual Crisis and Its Partial Resolution 1924--1927: Spiritual Awakening 1928--1932: Purgation 1933--1934: False Illumination 1935--1944: True Illumination: Direct Manifestations of Essence Vulnerabilities of Character Dilemmas of Inner-Worldly Mysticism Jung and Heidegger Socrates and Heidegger Heidegger and Weber Part V: Roots of a Contemporary This-Worldly Spirituality 10. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: A Near Eastern Inner-Worldly Mysticism in the Modern West Gurdjieff's Life and Teachings Gurdjieff's Anticipations of Object-Relations Theory Object-Relational Dilemmas in Gurdjieff's Life and System The Schizoid Position The Paranoid Position The Depressive Position: Making Reparation and the Capacity for Concern Gurdjieff and Almaas A Final Note on Gurdjieff in Nazi-Occupied Paris 11. Aleister Crowley, Sexual Magick, and Drugs: Some Ambiguities of Sex, Will, and Power in Inner-Worldly Mysticism Crowley's System of Mystical Will The Practices: Astral Travel and the Invention of the Speedball Crowley and Spiritual Realization False Will False Love False Power and the Role of Hatred The Horrific Childhood of Aleister Crowley Contrawise: The Avoidance of Essential Power and Will in Jerry Garcia Crowley and the Dilemmas of Contemporary Spirituality 12. Feminist Spirituality: The Return of Sophia Psychology, Gender, and Transpersonal Experience Socio-Cultural Bases of a Feminist Shamanism The Feminist Roots of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and Theosophy Contemporary Feminist Spiritualities The Autobiography of Jean Houston Limitations of a Feminist Inner-Worldly Mysticism Part VI: Transpersonal Psychology, New Age Spirituality, and the Human Sciences 13. Concluding Reflections Reconciling Transpersonal Approaches and the Human Sciences Contemporary Societal Implications Inner-Worldly Mysticism and Deep Ecology: The Weberian Dilemma Revisited Consciousness Evolution vs Cultural Globalization A Closing Word from Kierkegaard Notes References Index"

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Harry T. Hunt's informative and insightful study of 'inner worldly mysticism' gives a cogent discussion of the kind of mystical inclination that arises in our secular culture and the pitfalls inherent in such spiritual forms. His first-hand familiarity with the Diamond Approach gives him the depth and breadth to use some of its concepts in contextualizing both the achievements and limitations of influential figures such as Plotinus, Nietzsche, Jung, and Maslow (in a way that clarifies modern forms of Western spirituality).

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Harry T. Hunt is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brock University. He is the author of On the Nature of Consciousness: Cognitive, Phenomenological, and Transpersonal Perspectives and The Multiplicity of Dreams: Memory, Imagination, and Consciousness.

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