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In September of 1976 a group of some fifty scholars and practising mystics gathered at the University of Calgary. The chief objective of the Conference was to ponder and assess the nature of mysticism in its Eastern, Western and North American Indian forms. The method the Conference followed was somewhat unusual in that it aimed at a dialogue between the practising mystics and the scholars.

What this book presents to the reader is not the outcome of the dialogue, but the personal statements and papers from which the dialogue began. Of course there is a degree to which the dialogue is already present, in that the papers of the scholars were written with the statements of the mystics in hand. Among some of the philosophers present, a set of more formal comments on each others presentations was recorded and these have been included.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  2. pp. iii-iv
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  1. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. PREFACE
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. INTRODUCTION: Mysticism: Its Meaning and Varieties
  2. Walter Principe
  3. pp. 1-16
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  1. THE NATURE OF MYSTICISM AS PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED
  1. My Spiritual Discipline
  2. Brother David Steindl-Rast
  3. pp. 19-22
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  1. Spiritual Disciplines of a Practising Mystic According to Hinduism
  2. Swami Prabuddhananda
  3. pp. 23-26
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  1. Zen Mystical Practice
  2. Eido Roshi
  3. pp. 27-30
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  1. The Humanistic Transcendentalist Practice of the Kabbalah
  2. Rabbi Zalman Schachter
  3. pp. 31-38
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  1. SCHOLARLY ASSESSMENTS OF MYSTICISM
  1. Mystical Experience as Cognition
  2. John Hick
  3. pp. 41-56
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  1. Reflection on Professor John Hick's "Mystical Experience as Cognition"
  2. John Heintz
  3. pp. 57-60
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  1. Response to Professor John Heintz
  2. John Hick
  3. pp. 61-62
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  1. The Exploration of Mysticism
  2. Ninian Smart
  3. pp. 63-70
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  1. Unity and Diversity in The Interpretation of Mysticism
  2. Terence Panelhum
  3. pp. 71-82
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  1. Comments on Penelhum
  2. John Hick
  3. pp. 83-84
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  1. The Buddhist Path
  2. Herbert Guenther
  3. pp. 85-92
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  1. Levels of Language in Mystical Experience
  2. Harold Coward
  3. pp. 93-108
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  1. The Question of "Mysticism" Within Native American Traditions
  2. Joseph Epes Brown
  3. pp. 109-121
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