Description: For sale is Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill, the classic work on the subject. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness - 1911, Meridian Books 1970. Trade Paperback. The spirit of the book is romantic, engaged, and theoretical rather than historical or scientific. Underhill has little use for theoretical explanations and the traditional religious experience, formal classifications or analysis. She dismisses William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and his "four marks of the mystic state" (ineffability, noetic quality, transience, and passivity). James had admitted that his own constitution shut him off almost entirely from the enjoyment of mystical states, thus his treatment was purely objective. Underhill substituted (1) mysticism is practical, not theoretical, (2) mysticism is an entirely spiritual activity, (3) the business and method of mysticism is love, and (4) mysticism entails a definite psychological experience.
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Book Title: Mysticism: A Study in The Nature and Development of Man's
Publication Name: Meridian Books
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Meridian Books
Original Language: English
Publication Year: 1970
Type: Monograph
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: Not Applicable
Author: Underhill, Evelyn
Genre: Mind, Body & Spirit
Topic: Mysticism, Spirituality
Item Weight: 1.15 pounds
Number of Pages: 519
