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Cultivating the mystical experience and the contemplative traditions that underpin it can have profound ethical consequences.
By taking this path, alongside or instead of the analytic post-enlightenment route more familiar in the West, mysticism can shape the way that we relate our consciousness to our lived experience.
Contemporary society is a hostile place in which to hold onto ideas of hope, not least from an ethical standpoint. The anxiety that pervades this point in our shared history squeezes the opportunities to find escape or to reach a place beyond the immediate. Mysticism and Embodiment uses the body as a site from which to argue for a new understanding of this reality, framing transcendent experience in the context of existential phenomenology. In this context, the role of the mystical imagination comes to the fore, showing its immense value for individual and social healing, as well as our understanding of the other and how we can talk about new possibilities in ethical philosophy.
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Table of Contents
Part One: An Existential Phenomenology of Mysticism
2. Traditions in Mysticism
3. Continental Philosophy and Transcendence
4. Contemporary Mystical Practice
Part Two: Ethics and Transcendence
5. Creation Myths
6. Mending the World
7. The Interior Castle, The Exterior Public
Part Three: Mysticism and the Imagination
8. Mysticism in the Arts
9. Film as Ethics
10. Music, Word and Spirit
11. Somatic Movement and Dance
Part Four: Mysticism and the Other
12. Freedom and Post-Shoah Jewish Phenomenology
13. Revelation and Communication
14. Defining Transcendence Through Action
Part Five: Healing and Mysticism
15. Medicine and Mysticism
16. Drug-Induced States
17. Psychosis and Mania
18. Anorexia and Aestheticism
19. Conclusion
Product details
| Published | 20 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 280 |
| ISBN | 9781350450516 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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