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Author:   David M. Odorisio
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9783031985959

ISBN 10:   3031985958
Pages:   387
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Mysticism & the Margins (of Consciousness): Rounding Out the Edges of a Discipline.- Part I. From the Hip-Hop Underground to the Margins of the Mainstream.- Chapter 2. Demystifying Whiteness in The Way Underground: An Autoethnographic Essay.- Chapter 3. The Many Conversions of Jean Toomer.- Chapter 4. Listening to the Bigger Story: The Dagara Spiritual Technology of Divination on Turtle Island.- Chapter 5. Wild Ecology: An Ecoerotic Reading of Thoreau’s Nature Mysticism.- Chapter 6. From My Flesh, I See God: Spiritual Pregnancy and the Boundaries of Kabbalah.- Chapter 7. Action, Praxis, and Compassion: Traces of Engaged Mysticism in The Philokalia and Tibetan Buddhism.- Chapter 8. Mystics (In)action: Mirzā Ghulām Aḥmad’s Political Organization and the Misrecognition of Mystics in Modern Islam.- Chapter 9. At the Edge of the Page: Thomas Merton’s Marginalia as Hermeneutical Mysticism.- Chapter 10. Transcending Methodologies: Interpretive Affect and Textual Intimacy in Elliot Wolfson’s Mystical Hermeneutic.- Part II. Mysticism and the Psychedelic Reformation.- Chapter 11. Scholarship at 95mg of Ketamine: Psychedelics as Mirror and Lens.- Chapter 12. Tales from the Frontier: Theories of Religion on the Borderlands of the “Psychedelic Renaissance”.- Chapter 13. Still Seeking the Magic Mushroom: R. Gordon Wasson and the Complex Origins of Psychedelic Scholarship on Mysticism.- Chapter 14. Psychedelics and Mysticism: Mapping a Cultural Approach to Mystical Consciousness.- Chapter 15. Psychedelic Buddhism: Making Sense of an Emerging Mystical Tradition.- Chapter 16. Is Canned Mysticism Compossible? Centripetal and Centrifugal Mysticism: When Does Vision Meet Practice?.

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David M. Odorisio (PhD) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Psychology, Religion, and Consciousness program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. David is the editor of four volumes, including Thomas Merton in California: The Redwoods Conferences and Letters (Liturgical Press, 2024), and co-editor of Depth Psychology and Mysticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). David presently serves as the Co-Chair of the Mysticism Unit for the American Academy of Religion.

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