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This book demonstrates the complexity of Jewish mysticism in the history of religions. The author provides a morphology of the deep structures of thought that emerge from the basic texts of Jewish …
In clear and easy-to-understand prose, Gershom Scholem, the pioneer of the modern study of Jewish mysticism explains the basic concepts of the Kabbalah: the mystical "form of the imageless God"; go…
As the Zohar is the canonical text of the Kabbalah, so, in a sense, is Scholem's Major Trends the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understand…
In 1954, Aldous Huxley, published a book called The Doors of Perception that chronicled his experience with mescaline and how this drug when combined with his Eastern spiritual training led to a my…
This is the classic work in its field, and is an unsurpassed general introduction to the study of the nature and development of man's spritual consciousness.
Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thin…
The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day. They broke into a new religion, blazed a new trail to God and to the depths o…
We cannot thinking our way to God," declares the anonymous author of this fourteenth-century masterpiece of Christian mysticism, "because God can be loved, but not thought. This book is a profound …