02517cam a2200337 a 4500 4343138 AUA.1 20151112100952.0 890323s1990 nyua b 000 0 eng 89003403 0195059808 (alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC BL 625 .P76 1990 291.4/22 20 The Problem of pure consciousness : mysticism and philosophy / edited by Robert K.C. Forman. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. 307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman -- I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple -- Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths -- Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman -- Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg -- Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond -- Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt -- Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr. -- On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse -- Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler -- Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin. Summary: This collection of contributed essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience as a constructed and mediated product of previously held beliefs and concepts. Forman and his colleagues argue for the existence of a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines. Mysticism. 31839 Consciousness Religious aspects. 31840 Forman, Robert K. C. 31841 Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/89003403-d.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BOOK BL 625 .P76 1990 9192 9192 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2013-02-18 Donation, Theological Book Network 10.00 AUA012736 BL 625 .P76 1990 AUA012736 2013-02-18 00:00:00 10.00 2013-02-18 BOOK