Lives in spirit : precursors and dilemmas of a secular Western mysticism /

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Author / Creator:	Hunt, Harry T., 1943-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 357 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
Subject:	Mysticism -- Psychology -- Case studies. Secularism -- Psychology -- Case studies. Spirituality -- Psychology -- Case studies. Transpersonal psychology -- Case studies. Mysticism -- Psychology Spirituality -- Psychology Transpersonal psychology Electronic books. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11128784

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ISBN:	1417506903 9781417506903 0791458032 9780791458037 0791458040 9780791458044 9780791486443 0791486443
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-352) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"Lives in Spirit explores the dynamic conflicts that both energized and distorted the spiritual development of key precursor figures of a contemporary secular or "this-worldly" mysticism. With its historical roots in the early Gnostics and Plotinus, this characteristically Western spirituality re-emerges with the secularization and loss of traditional religious belief of modernity. The lives, works, and direct experiences of Nietzsche, Emerson, Thoreau, Jung, Heidegger, Gurdjieff, Crowley, and contemporary feminist mysticism are considered in terms of transpersonal psychology (Almaas), the sociology of mysticism (Weber and Troeltsch), and contemporary psychoanalysis (Winnicott, Bion, Kohut). Spiritual or essential experience is seen as an inherent form of human intelligence, which while potentially and even increasingly impacted by personal dynamics and social crisis, is not reducible to them."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Hunt, Harry T., 1943- Lives in spirit. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003 0791458032 0791458040

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