Recent additions, Email address, Notes
Recent additions:
5/23/08 It asked nothing of me by Wrenna 12/9/07 Mark Grennell: When we want others to have correct beliefs 12/11/07 Linda Peltier: Silence: The place of no place
1/11/04 Loving the spiritual source without insisting that she exist 1/11/04 Ginny: Objects of Love 1/23.04 OhC: Blending the bimodal process: integrating Zhuangzi's "double view"1/23/04 Wu si does not seem to be the same as Buddhist "selflessness" 3/1/04 My use of the term "God" 3/5/04 Words are merely metaphor, when words vanish we are delivered 3/21/04 Jewish Rabbinical Kabbalah
Summer/fall 2004: http://apophaticmysticism.com/Upto.html this file includes:
6/04: An unreasonable love for God;
7/04 A sudden shift (contributed by Terry Stiemsma)
8/21/04: "Being present to the giving and taking of life" by Kheyala
Email address for sending comments, complaints, and other wisdom: RaymondSigrist@Yahoo.com
Notes:
1. The author of this presentation is Raymond Sigrist. Although the material has been copyrighted, the author gives permission to the reader to copy and distribute any of the writing. In the author's opinion, it would not benefit one to charge for such copies.
2. The Essential Rumi, Tr. Coleman Barks with John Moyne, (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995) The actual text on page 66 reads, "...and the duck of urgency, kill them and revive them in another form, changed and harmless."
3. Consciousness and Tradition, Jacob Needleman, (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1982)
4. Tao, The Watercourse Way, Alan Watts, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1975)
5. The Butterfly as Companion, Kuang-Ming Wu, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. This is a great book, the author reflects on the first three chapters of Zhuang Zi with wide-ranging and creative insight.
6. Religious Experience, Wayne Proudfoot, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985) Excerpt: "The final chapter is a consideration of different kinds of explanation of religious experience and the issue of reductionism. A distinction is proposed between descriptive and explanatory reduction, each of which has different implications for the study of religious phenomena. The former is to be avoided, the latter is not..... Recent... philosophers would reject Schleiermacher's claim that it is possible to identify an experience that is independent of concepts and beliefs."
7. From Primitives To Zen, Mircea Eliade, (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1977)
8. Mysticism: Holiness East and West, Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmody, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) This is a very fine survey of mysticism as it is found in the major religious traditions.
9. Bahilowi: This quotation is from an interview of Gerhard Casey by James Wetmore. It appeared in the magazine Parabola: Summer 1996. This magazine, by the way, is quite excellent.
10. An Anthology of Christian Mysticism, Edited by Paul De Jaegher and translated by Donald Attwater and others, (Burns and Oats Limited, Londen, 1977)
11. The Ways of Knowing, William Pepperell Montague, (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1953)
12. The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, (Collier Books, New York, 1961)