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Chapter 1. Introduction: Mysticism & the Margins (of Consciousness): Rounding Out the Edges of a Discipline.- Part I. From the Hip-Hop Underground to the Margins of the Mainstream.- Chapter 2. Demystifying Whiteness in The Way Underground: An Autoethnographic Essay.- Chapter 3. The Many Conversions of Jean Toomer.- Chapter 4. Listening to the Bigger Story: The Dagara Spiritual Technology of Divination on Turtle Island.- Chapter 5. Wild Ecology: An Ecoerotic Reading of Thoreau’s Nature Mysticism.- Chapter 6. From My Flesh, I See God: Spiritual Pregnancy and the Boundaries of Kabbalah.- Chapter 7. Action, Praxis, and Compassion: Traces of Engaged Mysticism in The Philokalia and Tibetan Buddhism.- Chapter 8. Mystics (In)action: Mirza Ghulam A?mad’s Political Organization and the Misrecognition of Mystics in Modern Islam.- Chapter 9. At the Edge of the Page: Thomas Merton’s Marginalia as Hermeneutical Mysticism.- Chapter 10. Transcending Methodologies: Interpretive Affect and Textual Intimacy in Elliot Wolfson’s Mystical Hermeneutic.- Part II. Mysticism and the Psychedelic Reformation.- Chapter 11. Scholarship at 95mg of Ketamine: Psychedelics as Mirror and Lens.- Chapter 12. Tales from the Frontier: Theories of Religion on the Borderlands of the “Psychedelic Renaissance”.- Chapter 13. Still Seeking the Magic Mushroom: R. Gordon Wasson and the Complex Origins of Psychedelic Scholarship on Mysticism.- Chapter 14. Psychedelics and Mysticism: Mapping a Cultural Approach to Mystical Consciousness.- Chapter 15. Psychedelic Buddhism: Making Sense of an Emerging Mystical Tradition.- Chapter 16. Is Canned Mysticism Compossible? Centripetal and Centrifugal Mysticism: When Does Vision Meet Practice?.

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/25/2025
      ISBN13: 9783031985959, 978-3031985959
      ISBN10: 3031985958
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      Chapter 1. Introduction: Mysticism & the Margins (of Consciousness): Rounding Out the Edges of a Discipline.- Part I. From the Hip-Hop Underground to the Margins of the Mainstream.- Chapter 2. Demystifying Whiteness in The Way Underground: An Autoethnographic Essay.- Chapter 3. The Many Conversions of Jean Toomer.- Chapter 4. Listening to the Bigger Story: The Dagara Spiritual Technology of Divination on Turtle Island.- Chapter 5. Wild Ecology: An Ecoerotic Reading of Thoreau’s Nature Mysticism.- Chapter 6. From My Flesh, I See God: Spiritual Pregnancy and the Boundaries of Kabbalah.- Chapter 7. Action, Praxis, and Compassion: Traces of Engaged Mysticism in The Philokalia and Tibetan Buddhism.- Chapter 8. Mystics (In)action: Mirza Ghulam A?mad’s Political Organization and the Misrecognition of Mystics in Modern Islam.- Chapter 9. At the Edge of the Page: Thomas Merton’s Marginalia as Hermeneutical Mysticism.- Chapter 10. Transcending Methodologies: Interpretive Affect and Textual Intimacy in Elliot Wolfson’s Mystical Hermeneutic.- Part II. Mysticism and the Psychedelic Reformation.- Chapter 11. Scholarship at 95mg of Ketamine: Psychedelics as Mirror and Lens.- Chapter 12. Tales from the Frontier: Theories of Religion on the Borderlands of the “Psychedelic Renaissance”.- Chapter 13. Still Seeking the Magic Mushroom: R. Gordon Wasson and the Complex Origins of Psychedelic Scholarship on Mysticism.- Chapter 14. Psychedelics and Mysticism: Mapping a Cultural Approach to Mystical Consciousness.- Chapter 15. Psychedelic Buddhism: Making Sense of an Emerging Mystical Tradition.- Chapter 16. Is Canned Mysticism Compossible? Centripetal and Centrifugal Mysticism: When Does Vision Meet Practice?.

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