Paul Marshall

Mystical Encounters with the Natural World

Experiences and Explanations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mystical 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 surveys and evaluates a wide range of explanations put forward by religious thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and offers his own perspective on the nature of these experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780199279432
• ISBN-10: 0199279438
• Artikelnr.: 21724303

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The experiences
1: Extrovertive mystical experience: definition and incidence
2: `Being all, knowing all, loving all': phenomenology
3: Sex, drugs, and Beethoven? Circumstances and consequences
II. The explanations
4: Divine cosmos: encountering spirit in nature
5: Empty your mind: uncovering pure consciousness
6: Scholars lock horns: construction or deconstruction?
7: On the couch, in the lab: pathology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience
8: Mind beyond the brain: reducing valves and metaphysics
9: Fashions, failures, prospects