Overview
Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R. M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W. R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R. C. Zaehner, W. T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience.
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Marshall (Independent scholar)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.60cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.521kg
ISBN: 9780199279432
ISBN 10: 0199279438
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 07 July 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This is a terribly exciting book and, potentially, a very important one... [a] wonderful book Jeffrey J. Kripal, Religion a clear, up to date and excellently resourced investigation which is very ballanced... This book that I am sure that I shall return to again and again as both a stimulating read and as a research tool. Peggy Morgan, Bulletin of the British Association for the Study of Religions Marshall has produced an important, careful book that deserves to be widely read by students of psychology, philosophy, religion, and anomalous experience. Matt Colborn, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
This is a terribly exciting book and, potentially, a very important one... [a] wonderful book Jeffrey J. Kripal, Religion a clear, up to date and excellently resourced investigation which is very ballanced... This book that I am sure that I shall return to again and again as both a stimulating read and as a research tool. Peggy Morgan, Bulletin of the British Association for the Study of Religions Marshall has produced an important, careful book that deserves to be widely read by students of psychology, philosophy, religion, and anomalous experience. Matt Colborn, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
Author Information
Paul Marshall is an independent scholar with research interests in the philosophy and psychology of religion, the philosophy of mind, and the study of science and religion.
