Lives in spirit : precursors and dilemmas of a secular Western mysticism / / Harry T. Hunt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823086403321
• Autore: Hunt Harry T. <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0-7914-8644-3; 1-4175-0690-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
• Disciplina: 291.4/2
• Soggetti: Mysticism - Psychology; Secularism - Psychology; Spirituality - Psychology; Transpersonal psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-352) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Lives in Spirit -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Psychological and Cultural Bases of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Modern Western Society -- 1. Phenomenology and Psychodynamics of Transpersonal Experience -- Descriptive Phenomenologies -- Personal Development, Psychodynamics, and Metapathology -- 2. A. H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Spiritual Development and Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory -- Almaas, Transpersonal Psychology, and Psychodynamic Perspectives -- Multiple Forms of Essence: A Cartography of the Numinous -- Issues and Controversies -- 3. The Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch -- Max Weber on Radical Salvation Movements -- Inner-Worldly Mysticism as the "Secret Religion of the Educated Classes" -- Dilemmas and Societal Implications of Contemporary Inner-Worldly Mysticism -- PART II: The Historical Roots of Inner-Worldly Mysticism: Prototypes of Crisis and Resolution in Plotinus, Epictetus, and Gnosticism -- 4. Plotinus and Hellenistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism -- Epictetus and Personal Presence -- Plotinus and the Formless Dimensions -- Cognition and Contemplation: The Plotinian Psychology of Silberer and Jung, and the Origins of ; Transpersonal Psychology -- Object-Relational Patterns in Plotinian Contemplation: Mirroring and Splitting -- Plotinus on the Metapathologies of the Gnostics -- 5. Gnosticism: Mystical Dualism and the Metaphysics of Hate -- The Elements and Social Background of Gnosticism -- Some Specific Gnosticisms: Metapathologies and Implied Dynamics -- EGYPTIAN HERMETICISM -- BARBELITES, CAINITES, OPHITES, AND SETHIANS: MYSTICAL SATIRISTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT -- VALENTINUS AND PTOLEMY: HETERODOX CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS AND THE REDEMPTION OF SOPHIA -- MANICHAEANISM: A RADICAL PROPHETICAL DUALISM.; "Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself ": The Problem of Splitting in Mystical Gnosticism -- Freud's Gnostic Metapsychology of the Newborn -- PART III: Transpersonal Anticipations and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Precursors to a Naturalistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism -- 6. Nietzsche -- Aspects of Essence in Nietzsche's Thought and Experience -- Nietzsche's Life: Dynamics and Tragedy -- Relations between Pathology, Creativity, and Essential States in Nietzsche -- The Nietzschean Psychologists and Abraham Maslow -- 7. Emerson, Thoreau, and Hiram Marble: New England Transcendentalism and a Brief Look at Spiritualism -- Emerson's Eternal Moment of Being -- Dynamics and Openings to Essence in Emerson's Life -- Thoreau: The Woods of Concord as Mirror of the Soul -- Thoreau's Life and Dynamics -- Hiram Marble and Spiritualism: Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith at Dungeon Rock -- PART IV: Some Political Ambiguities in the Development of Presence: Inner-Worldly Mysticism, Metapathology, and National Socialism -- 8. Jung, Visionary Racial Occultism, and Hitler -- Self, Archetypes, and Collective Unconscious -- Carl Jung's Dance with the Devil -- Narcissistic Vulnerability in Jung's Development -- From "Collective Unconscious" to "Objective Psyche": Jung's Shift from Pseudo-Biology to a Cognition of Metaphor -- Aryan Racial Occultism: Why Jung is not a Nazi -- Hitler as Charismatic Prophet -- Max Weber on Spirituality and Politics -- 9. "Triumph of the Will": Heidegger's Nazism as Spiritual Pathology -- Heidegger as Spiritual Thinker -- The Rectorship -- Heidegger's Spiritual Crisis and its Partial Resolution -- 1924-1927: SPIRITUAL AWAKENING -- 1928-1932: PURGATION -- 1933-1934: FALSE ILLUMINATION -- 1935-1944: TRUE ILLUMINATION-DIRECT MANIFESTATIONS OF ESSENCE -- Vulnerabilities of Character -- Dilemmas of Inner-Worldly Mysticism -- JUNG AND HEIDEGGER.; SOCRATES AND HEIDEGGER -- Heidegger and Weber -- PART V: Roots of a Contemporary This-Worldly Spirituality -- 10. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: A Near Eastern Inner-Worldly Mysticism in the Modern West -- Gurdjieff's Life and Teachings -- Gurdjieff's Anticipations of Object-Relations Theory -- Object-Relational Dilemmas in Gurdjieff's Life and System -- THE SCHIZOID POSITION -- THE PARANOID POSITION -- THE DEPRESSIVE POSITION: MAKING REPARATION AND THE CAPACITY FOR CONCERN -- Gurdjieff and Almaas -- A Final Note on Gurdjieff in Nazi-Occupied Paris -- 11. Aleister Crowley, Sexual Magick, and Drugs: Some Ambiguities of Sex, Will, and Power in Inner-Worldly Mysticism -- Crowley's System of Mystical Will -- The Practices: Astral Travel and the Invention of the Speedball -- Crowley and Spiritual Realization -- FALSE WILL -- FALSE LOVE -- FALSE POWER AND THE ROLE OF HATRED -- The Horrific Childhood of Aleister Crowley -- Contrawise: The Avoidance of Essential Power and Will in Jerry Garcia -- Crowley and the Dilemmas of Contemporary Spirituality -- 12. Feminist Spirituality: The Return of Sophia -- Psychology, Gender, and Transpersonal Experience -- Socio-Cultural Bases of a Feminist Shamanism -- The Feminist Roots of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and Theosophy -- ; Contemporary Feminist Spiritualities -- The Autobiography of Jean Houston -- Limitations of a Feminist Inner-Worldly Mysticism -- PART VI: Transpersonal Psychology, New Age Spirituality, and the Human Sciences -- 13. Concluding Reflections -- Reconciling Transpersonal Approaches and the Human Sciences -- Contemporary Societal Implications -- INNER-WORLDLY MYSTICISM AND DEEP ECOLOGY: THE WEBERIAN DILEMMA REVISITED -- CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLUTION VS. CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION -- A Closing Word from Kierkegaard -- Notes.; 2. A.H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Spiritual Development and Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory -- 3. The Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch -- 5. Gnosticism -- 6. Nietzsche -- 7. Emerson, Thoreau, and Hiram Marble -- 8. Jung, Visionary Racial Occultism, and Hitler -- 9. "Triumph of the Will": Heidegger's Nazism as Spiritual Pathology -- 10. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff -- 11. Aleister Crowley, Sexual Magick, and Drugs -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores the roots of modern transpersonal psychology and spirituality through psychobiography.