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Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue with Japanese Thinkers

Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue with Japanese Thinkers

Roy O. P., Louis

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Religion General General Eastern Religions

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ISBN10: 0791456447
ISBN13: 9780791456446
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 30 2003
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

Provides a philosophical account of everyday consciousness as a way of understanding mystical consciousness, drawing on the work of many Western and some Japanese thinkers.

This book offers a philosophical account of ordinary consciousness as a step toward understanding mystical consciousness. Presupposing a living interaction between meditation and thinking, the work draws on Western and Japanese thinkers to develop a philosophy of religion that is friendly to the experience of meditators and that can explore such themes as emptiness, nothingness, and the self. Western thinkers considered include Plotinus, Eckhart, Schleiermacher, Heidegger, Brentano, Husserl, Sartre, and Lonergan; and Japanese thinkers referenced include Nishitani, Hisamatsu, and Suzuki. All employed centering prayer, Zen, or other forms of mental concentration. Particular emphasis is placed on the work of twentieth-century Catholic philosopher Bernard Lonergan, whose writings on consciousness can inform an understanding of mysticism.

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