Tag: mysticism

Free Download Matteo Leonardi, "Iacopone Da Todi: The Power of Mysticism and the Originality of Franciscan Poetry "
English | ISBN: 9004512314 | 2023 | 397 pages | PDF | 17 MB
The first ever collection of essays in English on Iacopone da Todi (ca. 1230 – 25 December 1306) by a diverse group of international scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics and reassesses critical perspectives on a neglected poet.

Free Download Joseph Azize, "Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises "
English | ISBN: 0190064072 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Armenian-born mystic, philosopher, and spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) is an enigmatic figure, the subject of a great deal of interest and speculation, but not easily fitting into any of the common categories of "esoteric," "occult," or "New Age." Scholars have for the most part passed over in silence the contemplative exercises presented in Gurdjieff’s writings. Although Gurdjieff had intended them to be confidential, some of the most important exercises were published posthumously in 1950 and in 1975.

Free Download Andy Hilton, "Anthropology and Mysticism in the Making of Initiation: A History of Discourse and Ideas for Today"
English | ISBN: 9086863450 | 2019 | 332 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This wide-ranging book looks at the history, evolution and contemporary idea of initiation.

Free Download Jon Mundy PhD, "A Course in Mysticism and Miracles: Begin Your Spiritual Adventure"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1578636019 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.9 mb
In this book, Jon Mundy explores the tenets of mysticism and the teachings of A Course in Miracles, a book now regarded as a modern spiritual classic. Mysticism is the core of all true religions, and its teachings offer a way, or a path, to living in harmony with the Divine. The Course offers deep insight into the workings of the mind. When studied together, they provide spiritual awakening, clarity, and understanding.

Free Download Timothy L. Seals, "Daniel’s Mysticism of Resistance in Its Seleucid Context"
English | ISBN: 1978713142 | 2022 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 526 KB + 7 MB
In Daniel’s Mysticism of Resistance in Its Seleucid Context, Timothy L. Seals proffers a postcolonial interpretation of the book of Daniel, investigating certain texts that constitute Daniel’s mystical way or practice. Daniel uses mysticism to resist the repressive script of Antiochus IV outlawing the Jewish religion in 167 BCE. In his use of non-violence to resist the imperial power of the Seleucids, Daniel stands in the non-violent, passive-resistant tradition of both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Daniel uses mysticism both to resist imperial intrusions into his humanity and to decolonize his mind in the aftermath of colonization. In this endeavor, mysticism proves to be world-affirming.

Free Download Steven Rozenski, "Wisdom’s Journey: Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350-1650"
English | ISBN: 0268202761 | 2022 | 344 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Steven Rozenski reopens old discussions and addresses new ones concerning late medieval devotional texts, particularly those showing continental and German influences.

Free Download Morgan Shipley, "Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America"
English | ISBN: 1498509096 | 2015 | 294 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Laura E. Weed, "Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion "
English | ISBN: 3031180127 | 2023 | 307 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it. This anthology features contributions that point out that contemporary studies of consciousness, sociology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields, are revealing that there is much more to be said for the inner life of a human’s consciousness than reductionists and behaviorists will allow.

Free Download Yongho Francis Lee, "Mysticism and Intellect in Medieval Christianity and Buddhism: Ascent and Awakening in Bonaventure and Chinul"
English | ISBN: 1793600708 | 2020 | 300 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Mysticism and Intellect in Medieval Christianity and Buddhism explores two influential intellectual and religious leaders in Christianity and Buddhism, Bonaventure (c. 1217-74) and Chinul (1158-1210), a Franciscan theologian and a Korean Zen master respectively, with respect to their lifelong endeavors to integrate the intellectual and spiritual life so as to achieve the religious aims of their respective religious traditions. It also investigates an associated tension between different modes of discourse relating to the divine or the ultimate-positive (cataphatic) discourse and negative (apophatic) discourse. Both of these modes of discourse are closely related to different ways of understanding the immanence and transcendence of the divine or the ultimate. Through close studies of Bonaventure and Chinul, the book presents a unique dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism and between West and East.

Free Download Alex S. Kohav, "Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches"
English | ISBN: 1498599370 | 2020 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, psychology, medical research, and even mathematics. Scholars across disciplines observe that, although it has experienced both cyclical approval and disapproval, mysticism seems to be implicated as a key foundation of religion, alon with the highest forms of social, cultural, intellectual, and artistic creations. This book is divided into four sections: The Exposure, The Symbolic, The Cognitive, and The Scientific, covering all fundamental aspects of the phenomenon known as mysticism. Contributors, taking advantage of recent advances in disciplinary approaches to understanding mystical phenomena, address questions of whether progress can be made to systemically enrich, expand, and advance our understanding of mysticism.