Download or read book The Hindu Mystical Experience written by Albano Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and works of Robert Charles Zaehner, 1913-1974, British anthropologist and Bede Griffiths, 1906-1993, Anglican philosopher.
Download or read book Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition written by June McDaniel and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition that was published in Religions
Download or read book Reality and Mystical Experience written by F. Samuel Brainard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to our modern disillusionment with any claims to absolute truth regarding morality or reality, this book offers a conceptual approach for discussing absolutes without denying either the relevance of divergent religious and philosophical teachings or the evidence supporting postmodern and poststructuralist critiques. Case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedānta Hinduism, Mādhyamika Buddhism, and Nicene Christianity demonstrate the value of this approach and offer many fresh insights into the metaphysical presuppositions of these religions as well as into the nature and value of mystical experience. Like Douglas Hofstadter's Gōdel, Escher, Bach, this book finds ultimate reality to be rationally graspable only as an eternal fugue of pattern and paradox. Yet it does not so much counter other philosophical views as provide a conceptual tool for understanding and classifying incommensurable views.
Download or read book Hindu Mysticism written by Surendranath Dasgupta and published by True Sign Publishing House Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Hindu Mysticism"" by Surendranath Dasgupta is a seminal work that delves into the depths of Hindu spiritual philosophy and mysticism. Dasgupta, a renowned scholar of Indian philosophy, provides a comprehensive exploration of the mystical traditions within Hinduism, spanning from the ancient Vedic texts to the modern-day expressions of mysticism. Drawing upon a wealth of Sanskrit texts and philosophical treatises, Dasgupta elucidates the fundamental concepts of Hindu mysticism, such as the nature of ultimate reality (Brahman), the practice of yoga, and the pursuit of spiritual liberation (moksha). He examines various mystical experiences, including meditation, devotion (bhakti), and ecstatic states of consciousness (samadhi), offering insightful interpretations and analyses. Through his meticulous scholarship and profound insights, Dasgupta sheds light on the intricate tapestry of Hindu mystical thought, guiding readers on a transformative journey into the depths of the Hindu spiritual tradition. His work continues to be a seminal resource for scholars, practitioners, and seekers alike, seeking to understand the profound mysteries of Hindu mysticism.
Download or read book Hindu View of Christ written by Swami Akhilananda and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
Download or read book Theo Monistic Mysticism written by M. Stoeber and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-04-05 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to some of the current explanations of mystic phenomena, this book proposes an interpretive framework for understanding mysticism. It clarifies various kinds of mystical experiences, suggesting they are not wholly determined by subjective categories of interpretation, and illustrates how they can be synthesised in a theistic, mystic teleology. In reference to Ramanuja, Aurobinodo, Sankara, Eckhart, Ruusbroec, and Boehme, monistic experiences are understood to culminate in higher theistic realizations, to which other kinds of mysticism can also be related.
Download or read book Secret Body written by Jeffrey J. Kripal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest work by the renowned historian of religions Jeffrey Kripal crystallizes his twenty-five years of work on two aspects of the contemporary study of religion: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. Combining elements of memoir, manifesto, and anthology (a Kripal Reader, as it were), Secret Body reveals Kripal's oeuvre not as a series of disconnected books but as a dynamic corpus with the potential to renew and reshape the study of religion. Kripal explains how this oeuvre came about with his trademark humor and honesty, answers his censors and critics, and lays the foundation for a future theory of religion grounded in the cosmic nature of consciousness as such. No one interested in the history of religion and the erotic dimension of mysticism can afford to overlook Kripal's latest, his definitive intellectual self-portrait.
Download or read book Mystical Experience of Reality Volume II written by Keith Michael Hancock and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is MER (The Mystical Experience of Reality) What Humans Are All About? The Mystical Experience of Reality book and blog series by Keith Michael Hancock is a uniquely serious case history of newly emerging facts about the mystical experience of Reality (MER). It is presented here to add to the growing scientific and academic literature being produced around the world today–what human existence is really all about. Does God exist, or is much more revealing itself in our evolutionary progress? Many scientists and scholars are experiencing the answer–Yes! Mystical Experience of Reality Volume I, and now Volume II, are compiled of posts from Keith's Blog, Mystic Experiences. Volume II was thought necessary because Keith’s latest revelations have brought these historically important messages to a concluding realisation of what the human condition is all about. See Summing Up at the end of the book. Scholars, scientists and spiritual Seekers around the world who visit and follow his blog will appreciate Summing Up as a uniquely new, complete understanding of why we're here. In this book Keith has aimed to keep each topic shorter and on point, always leaving you with a new thought to ponder, always encouraging you to dig deeper and recall your own experiences thus far. WHY KEITH? He doesn’t know! He says he is not aware of any qualification he had or has for receiving the mystical experiences of Reality (MER), the truth of Reality’s existence. He says he wasn’t religious or spiritual and didn't even know the word ‘mystic’ when they started. The Mystical Experience of Reality, as Keith calls it, is a well-known, historical, non-biological, non-human historical phenomena that engulfed him as a 14-year-old several times every year until his late thirties, filling him with the experience of a Reality in which all things known and unknown exist at Its behest, guarding, guiding, accepting everything that exists, separately, personally, individually. It is benign and uninterested in human wants or constructs such as religions, politics, ideologies. It only deals with individuals. The experiences bring profound joy and love, with a knowledge beyond all human experience. Keith insists the experience of Reality is caught, not taught. The books are filled with posts from Keith’s blog, mysticexperiences.net, for the author to examine himself and his existence in accordance with the way of Reality. Accordingly, he says he found by comparison that there is nothing in humanity worth studying. The first book, Mystic Experiences of Reality Volume I, and this one, Volume II, are summations of years of using writing to explore the awareness given Keith by his mystical experiences, in the hope it will add to the literature on the subject, which is now being more seriously studied around the world than it has ever been. Keith’s writing also seeks to pass on Reality's personal message to him–All Is Well.
Download or read book The Hindu Religious Tradition written by Pratima Bowes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1977, The Hindu Religious Tradition provides a detailed exploration into the different doctrines regarding the nature of Religious Reality and the many paths of search for this Reality within the Hindu religion. The book discusses these differing doctrines from the point of view of their philosophical significance and their use in man’s search for the divine in consideration of the traditional teaching that the divine is already in man and can be realised in direct experience. It provides a comprehensive account of this tradition through considering all aspects that are integral to it, and highlights that the profundity of this tradition lies in that it cannot be limited to the requirements of any one form of conceiving the divine. The Hindu Religious Tradition will appeal to those with an interest in Hinduism, religious philosophy, and theology.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience written by Paul K. Moser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, theologians and philosophers, among others, have examined the nature of religious experience. Students and scholars unfamiliar with the vast literature face a daunting task in grasping the main issues surrounding the topic of religious experience. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers an original introduction to its topic. Going beyond an introduction, it is a state-of-the-art overview of the topic, with critical analyses of and creative insights into its subject. Religious experience is discussed from various interdisciplinary perspectives, from religious perspectives inside and outside traditional monotheistic religions, and from various topical perspectives. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible prose, this book is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and scholars across many disciplines.
Download or read book Religious Mysticism written by S. K. Adlakha and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: 1. Religious Mysticism: An Introduction, 2. Mysticism Among Oral Peoples, 3. Hinduism: A General Orientation, 4. Krishna, 5. Shiva, 6. Muslimtraditions: A General Orientation, 7. Ghazali And After, 8. God And Brahman, 9. Vedanta In Muslim Dress, 10. Islamic Traditions.
Download or read book The Hindu Mind written by Bansi Pandit and published by New Age Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Close Encounters of the Mystical Kind written by Dr Vanitha Vaidialingam and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is a vibrant, dynamic, interactive participant in your daily life. Mystical experiences are nothing but an awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary. Constant attention to the interplay of varying forces in the events in your life will reveal to you the play of the divine; the mystical in experiences that are dished out to you. It is a non-sensuous awareness that dissolves all boundaries and manifests as grace or whatever you may choose to call it. In this book, I have strung together a series of ordinary experiences that assumed a mystical quality when the intensity of a prayer or the activation of an unseen force transformed the mundane into the extraordinary.
Download or read book Hindu and Muslim Mysticism written by R. C. Zaehner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based upon a Jordan Lecture in Comparative Religion of 1959, traces the development of mystical thought during the formative periods of the Hindu and Muslim traditions. The religions are discussed separately but comparisons are offered wherever appropriate. The part on Hinduism focuses on the classical Upanishads, the Yogasutras, the Bhagavad-Gita, and Ramanuja's commentary on them. For Islam, the focus is on the monistic revolution introduced by Abu Yazid, which Zaehner traces to the influence of Indian thought and through Junayd's restoration of the theistic balance to the monism of the late writings of Ghazali.
Download or read book Religious Experience and the Knowledge of God written by Harold A. Netland and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Christians, personal experiences of God provide an important ground or justification for accepting the truth of the gospel. But we are sometimes mistaken about our experiences, and followers of other religions also provide impressive testimonies to support their religious beliefs. This book explores from a philosophical and theological perspective the viability of divine encounters as support for belief in God, arguing that some religious experiences can be accepted as genuine experiences of God and can provide evidence for Christian beliefs.
Download or read book Close Encounters of the Mystical Kind written by Vanitha Vaidialingam and published by Vanitha Vaidialingam. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystical experiences make ordinary, extraordinary The universe is a vibrant, dynamic, interactive participant in your daily life. Mystical experiences are nothing but an awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary. Constant attention to the interplay of varying forces in the events in your life will reveal to you the play of the divine; the mystical in experiences that are dished out to you. It is a non-sensuous awareness that dissolves all boundaries and manifests as grace or whatever you may choose to call it.. What is this book about? This is an autobiographical account of the extraordinary interventions in the author's life by mystical forces. All events narrated in this book are presented as they happened with no interpretations, philosophical ruminations or even comments. The reader must interpret the event in accordance with his/her own experience of life. The book is written in a racy, lucid style and is a first person narrative that is the natural forte of autobiographies. The book begins with early childhood events that shaped the personality of the author and goes on to speak of visitations, visions, dreams and a host of other events that made ordinary events assume a mystical quality. The intensity of a prayer or a deep seated longing seems to activate the mystical and the universe seems to respond in myriad ways. Who is this book for? This book is for everyone. The believer, the non-believer, the atheist and the agnostic will find the book interesting. It is not a book about a particular religion or faith (though several words from Hindu mythology are used --that is because the author was born into a Hindu family and was brought up in the Hindu tradition). However, the book is about personal spiritual experiences of the divine and such experiences are common whatever the religion or faith one is born into. The atheist and agnostic may dismiss the narrated events as mere coincidences, the believers may see the hand of God. Either way, the book speaks to everyone in different ways and is a good read. The style of narration and the organization of the book holds the reader's attention and one cannot put the book down until one has finished with it!. Happy reading... Comments will be appreciated. Reader's comments help authors grow. Please do leave a comment whether you liked the book or not. It will be much appreciated.
Download or read book I Am Brahman written by Maurice Anslow and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Brahman is an inspired quest into the heart of the non-dual reality. This deeply personal journey discovers the essentials in religion, science and art which all point to the Advaitin truth that consciousness itself is the basis of all existence. This short but visceral journey includes mystical experiences in India and goes deeper than ever before to describe what it is like to experience Brahman - the great Oneness of which we are a part. Rather than just another descriptive book about non-duality I am Brahman takes wings and carries the reader from the banks of the Ganges into the poetry of the soul. Here is what science has been looking for and the theology to unite all faiths. Maurice Anslow's book pulls together the searchings of a lifetime and deserves to become a modern spiritual classic.
