The Spirit Transcendent : Exploring the Extraordinary in Human Experience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yama, Mark F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

""What are we to make of direct spiritual experience? Of accounts of going to heaven or meeting angels? Traditional science would call these hallucinations or delusions. Clinical psychologist Dr. Mark Yama argues the opposite. Through interviews with his patients, he shows that underneath the visions and experiences there is a unifying spiritual reality apart from the material world. One of the stories recounted in this book is the experience of a woman who could see the future. In a spiritual transport, she was taken to heaven where truths were revealed to her that she later discovered were already written in Gnostic scripture. Another woman lived a life marked by a spiritual sensitivity that defied materialist explanation. After she passed away of cancer, she came to inhabit the consciousness of another of Dr. Yama's patients in the form of a benign possession. These stories, and many others, argue for a deeper reality that places spirituality on an equal footing with the material world."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Preface

One-The Witch of Orofino

Two-Hallucinations of the Angelic Variety

Three-Death and Transcendence

Four-At the Bottom Rung of the Ladder

Five-Theory of the Soul

Six-Travels to the Collective Unconscious

Seven-The Gates of Heaven

Eight-The Christian God Meets the Great Spirit

Nine-Hallucinations of the Demonic Variety

Ten-Through a Glass Darkly

Eleven-Science and Spirituality

Chapter Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4766-3918-3

OCLC:

1150162804