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- 2012-02-21
- ISBN
- 9780231153621
- EAN
- 9780231153621
- Book Title
- Awakened Ones : Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Religion
- Topic
- Mysticism, Comparative Religion, Psychology of Religion
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- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 42.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 644 Pages
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While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding. Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term "dream-ego" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231153627
ISBN-13
9780231153621
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109245806
Product Key Features
Book Title
Awakened Ones : Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Mysticism, Comparative Religion, Psychology of Religion
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion
Number of Pages
644 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1 in
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
42.4 Oz
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Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Bl625.O24 2012
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The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience is Gananath Obeyesekere's magnum opus, his summa, his valedictory volume, to use three Latinate terms that come down to, it's a great big book into which he's put all the wisdom of his long lifetime., I have read no more profound book in many years and recommend this book to anyone who is interested in visionary experiences that are salvific, whether explicitly religious or not., In this finely written, massive essay, ethnographer Obeyesekere elucidates a dialectic epistemology that utilizes both rational-scientific thinking and what he calls "passive cerebration.", In a world subjugated by the reification, if not deification, of rationality and science, this is a sorely needed antidote.... Highly recommended., This is the most sustained and powerful treatment since William James of the forms of knowledge and of life that visionary experience makes possible. It is a remarkable combination of panoramic reference, detached analysis, and the most personal intensity of feeling and style., The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience is Gananath Obeyesekere's magnum opus, his summa, his valedictory volume, to use three Latinate terms that come down to, it's a great big book into which he's put all the wisdom of his long lifetime. . . . Brilliant, erudite, and candid., [Obeyesekere's] cultural and historical range is as impressive as his epistemological thesis is focused and tight., In his impeccable style, with an unmatched eloquence, a series of sparking, sparkling insights, and an expansive comparative vision, Gananath Obeyesekere gives us what can only be called a spiritual-intellectual testament. In the process, he calls on us to unite the rational and the nonrational at the highest levels of scholarship and cultural work and to envision a cross-cultural enlightenment that is as indebted to the visionary teachings of a Buddha or a William Blake as to the humanities and social sciences. A stunning and edifying achievement from a major intellectual., The Awakened Ones is the most sustained and powerful treatment since William James of the forms of knowledge and life that visionary experience makes possible. It is a remarkable combination of panoramic reference, detached analysis, and the most personal intensity of feeling and style.
Table of Content
Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings Book 2. Mah'y'na: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision Book 3. The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth Envoi--Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer's Dream and the Return of the Vultures Notes Glossary Index
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2011-015304
Dewey Decimal
204/.2
Dewey Edition
22
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