Everyday Mysticism
Everyday Mysticism October 24, 2017 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300212099.003.0008
Summary
The chapter explores religious experiences across Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, focusing on how these traditions create and dismantle conceptual maps of reality to achieve true presence. It highlights the similarities and differences in these experiences as seen through the lens of the school at Neot Smadar.
Abstract
This chapter examines the nature of religious experience, comparing Buddhist, Hindu and Christian examples with the school at Neot Smadar. The key is making and unmaking of conceptual maps of reality and attaining states of true presence.