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020			_a0195059808 (alk. paper)
040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aBL 625 _b.P76 1990
082	0	0	_a291.4/22 _220
245	0	4	_aThe Problem of pure consciousness : _bmysticism and philosophy / _cedited by Robert K.C. Forman.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1990.
300			_a307 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aContents:
505			_aIntroduction : 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.
520			_aSummary:
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aMysticism. _931839
650		0	_aConsciousness _xReligious aspects. _931840
700	1		_aForman, Robert K. C. _931841
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/89003403-d.html
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eocip _f19 _gy-gencatlg
942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBL 625 _i.P76 1990
999			_c9192 _d9192