The highest state of consciousness. / Edited by John White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, John Warren, 1939- compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism.

Ecstasy.

Experience (Religion).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 484 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1972.

Contents:

Altered states of consciousness / Stanley Krippner

The search for ecstasy / from Mind alive

The supra-conscious state / Kenneth Walker

States of consciousness / Roger W. Wescott

Visionary experience / Aldous Huxley

The perennial philosophy / Aldous Huxley

From self to cosmic consciousness / Richard M. Bucke

Self-transcendence and beyond / Robert S. de Ropp

Transcendental experience / R.D. Laing

Mystical states and the concept of regression / Raymond Prince and Charles Savage

The mystical experience: facts and values / Claire Myers Owens

Mysticism and schizophrenia / Kenneth Wapnick

On creative, psychotic and ecstatic states / Roland Fischer

Psychotherapy and liberation / Alan W. Watts

Zen Buddhism: a psychological review / Edward W. Maupin

The psychology of mysticism / U.A. Asrani

The ecstasy of breaking-through in the experience of meditation / Lama Anagarika Govinda

Drugs and mysticism / Walter N. Pahnke

LSD and mystical experiences / G. Ray Jordan, Jr.

Transcendental meditation / Students International Meditation Society and Demetri P. Kanellakos

The experimental induction of religious-type experiences / Jean Houston and Robert E.L. Masters

Meditation and biofeedback / Durand Kiefer

Trance dance / Erika Bourguignon

Transpersonal potentialities of deep hypnosis / Charles T. Tart

The "core-religious," or "transcendent," experience / Abraham Maslow

In search of the miraculous / P.D. Ouspensky

Introduction to the Tao te ching / Arthur Waley

Death and renewal / Richard Wilhelm

The resurrection of the body / Norman O. Brown

The mystic union: a suggested biological interpretation / Alexander Maven

This is it / Alan W. Watts

From The magus / John Fowles

Postscript: Psychical research in relation to higher states of consciousness / W.G. Roll.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-480).

OCLC:

257152