{"product_id":"mysticism-and-experience-9781498599375","title":"Mysticism and Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMysticism: 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 understandi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Unutterable Experiences of Consciousness Alteration \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I. THE EXPOSURE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.Manifestations of Shamanic Spirituality: Mongolia 1999, 2002\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEva Jane Neumann Fridman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Theoneurology: Bridging Hebrew Bible Prophecy and Clinical Psychedelic Drug Research \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRick Strassman, MD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II. THE SYMBOLIC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.Materializing the Symbolic in Paranormal Experience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJess Hollenback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.Words and Images of a Transcendent Inner Mysterion: Mysticism in Contemporary Western Literature and Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOri Z. Soltes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III. THE COGNITIVE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.The Dao Flickering through Words: A Cognitive-Poetic Analysis of Dao-de Jing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSivan Wagshal Te’eni and Reuven Tsur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Why Are Religious Experiences Ineffable? The Question of Mystical-Noetic Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura E. Weed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Mystical Experiences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarry T. Hunt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART IV. THE SCIENTIFIC \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Explanatory Mechanisms of Altered States of Consciousness: A Brief Overview \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex S. Kohav\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.Mathematical Modeling of Cognitive Mechanisms of Meaning and the Spiritually Sublime \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonid I. Perlovsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Transcendent Knowledge-Claims and the Scientific Study of Mystical Experiences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard H. Jones \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040880722263,"sku":"9781498599375","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498599375.jpg?v=1750948161","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mysticism-and-experience-9781498599375","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}