In this Book
- Mystics and Scholars: The Calgary Conference on Mysticism 1976
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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.
Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- pp. iii-iv
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- pp. v-vi
- THE NATURE OF MYSTICISM AS PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED
- My Spiritual Discipline
- pp. 19-22
- Zen Mystical Practice
- pp. 27-30
- SCHOLARLY ASSESSMENTS OF MYSTICISM
- Mystical Experience as Cognition
- pp. 41-56
- Response to Professor John Heintz
- pp. 61-62
- The Exploration of Mysticism
- pp. 63-70
- Comments on Penelhum
- pp. 83-84
- The Buddhist Path
- pp. 85-92
Additional Information
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1977