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The awakened ones : phenomenology of visionary experience / Gananath Obeyesekere.
LIBRA BL625 .O24 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Obeyesekere, Gananath.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visions--Comparative studies.
- Visions.
- Genre:
- Comparative studies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 622 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Book 1 The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings 19
- The Awakened Buddha and the Buddhist Awakening 19
- Time and Space in Visionary Experience 30
- Critique of the Cogito: The Buddha, Nietzsche, and Freud 35
- Daybreak: The Space of Silence and the Emergence of Aphoristic Thinking 45
- Schreber and the Pictorial Imagination 62
- Book 2 Mahayana: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision 75
- Hinge Discourse: The Movement Toward Mahayana and the Rise of Theistic Mysticism 75
- Introducing Tibetan Treasure-Seekers: Visionary Knowledge and Its Transmission 94
- Picturing the Tibetan Cosmos 99
- The Waking Dream in a Buddhist Text on Illusion 108
- Ambivalence, Fakery, and the Validation of the Buddhist Vision 109
- The Tibetan Dream-Time and the Dissolution of the Self 113
- Book 3 The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals 127
- Plotinus: The Mystical Reach of the Absolute 127
- Plotinus and the Buddha: The Discourse on the Ineffable 138
- Secular Spirituality in the Metaphysics of Physicists 156
- Book 4 Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul 169
- Showings: The Christian Visions of Julian of Norwich 169
- Dryness: Psychic Realities and Cultural Formations in Female Visionary Religiosity 178
- Replenishment and Rapture: The Case of Teresa of Avila 186
- Analysis: Deep Motivation and the Work of Culture in Christian Penitential Ecstasy 201
- Historical Tableaux: The Participatory Visualizations of Margery Kempe 217
- Margery's Grief: A Postpartum Depression and Its Transformation 223
- Book 5 Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason 243
- Hinge Discourse: The Occult Worlds of Early European Modernity 243
- William Blake and the Theory of Vision 263
- The Cure at Felpham 276
- Aside: The Work of the Dream-Ego 289
- Back to Blake and the Wide Realm of Wild Reality 303
- Blake's Peers: Poetry and the Dreaming 316
- Book 6 Theosophies: West Meets East 325
- The Visionary Travels of Madame Blavatsky: Countering Enlightenment Rationality 325
- The Production of Psychic Phenomena 342
- The Cold Snows of a Dream: The Death of Damodar Mavalankar 345
- Colonel Olcott and the Return to Euro-rationality 351
- Epistemic Breaks: Blavatsky and the Hindu Consciousness 355
- Book 7 Modernity and the Dreaming 363
- Hinge Discourse: Dream Knowledge in a Scientific Weltanschauung 363
- A Postscript to Freud: Rethinking Manifest Dreams and Latent Meanings 376
- Carl Gustav Jung and the "Natural Science" of Oneiromancy 381
- On Synchronicity 402
- Jung's Psychosis: When the Dead Awaken 409
- The Tower: The Dark Night of Jung's Trance Illness 427
- Book 8 Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth 441
- Lucid Dreaming: Visionary Consciousness and the Death of God 441
- Eroticism and the Dream Ego 455
- Edwin Muir: A Myth Dreamer of Death and Transcendence 461
- Envoi-Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer's Dream and the Return of the Vultures 473.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231153621
- 0231153627
- 9780231527309
- 0231527306
- OCLC:
- 715285677
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