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title	:	Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness
author	:	Forman, Robert K. C.
publisher	:	State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0791441695
print isbn13	:	9780791441695
ebook isbn13	:	9780585326153
language	:	English
subject	Mysticism.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	BL625.F64 1999eb
ddc	:	291.4/22
subject	:	Mysticism.

Page iii Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness Robert K. C. Forman

Page iv Materials found in chapters 1, 3, and 4 are from "Language, Epistemology and Mysticism," in Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis by Steven Katz. Copyright 1978 by Steven Katz. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. Material found in chapter 4 are from "Mysticism, Mediation and the Non-Linguistic" by Larry Short in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 113, No. 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 659676. Reprinted by permission of Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Material found in chapter 5 are from Philosophy of Mind in Sixth Century China: Paramartha's Evolution of Consciousness. Copyright 1984 by Stanford University Press. Reprinted by permission. Production by Ruth Fisher Marketing by Fran Keneston Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1999 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address the State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Forman, Robert K. C. Mysticism, mind, consciousness / Robert K. C. Forman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-4169-5 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-4170-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Mysticism. I. Title. BL625.F64 1999 291.4'22dc21 98-47983 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page v For Rosha Nicole Kraus Forman and Avram Michael Kraus Forman

Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix 1. Mystics and Constructivists 1 Part I: The Pure Consciousness Event 2. Reports of Pure Consciousness Events 11 3. Of Horses and Horse Carts 31 4. Non-Linguistic Mediation 55 5. Buddhists and Constructivism 81 Part II: A New Model for Pure Consciousness 6. Of Horse Carts and Space Capsules Constructive Language and Spiritual Techniques 95 7. Knowledge by Identity 109 Part III: The Dualistic Mystical State 8. Silence, Thinking, and Cutting Carrots Characterizing an Advanced Mystical State 131 9. The Janus-Faced Soul: An Epistemology of the Dualistic Mystical State 153 10. Concluding Remarks 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 201 Index 211

Page ix PREFACE This book is the product of a lifetime. I have been thinking about the issues discussed herein since my early twenties, when I took up the practice of meditation and began having some of the experiences we students of mysticism like to investigate. I have been puzzling over the philosophical problems that such experiences bring up since my very first semester of graduate school at Columbia University's Department of Religion, where I first was confronted with them in a class conducted by my esteemed professor and challenge-mentor, Wayne Proudfoot. I have been exploring them through my years of thinking about Hinduism, mystical Christianity, Buddhism, and the riot of spiritual programs alive in the modern West. Thus what you have in your hands is the product of an adult life of thinking, writing, pondering, and wondering about the nature of conscious experience and especially mystical experience; and that life's halting attempts at making sense of them. Those of you that know my work will find here some that is familiar and some that is entirely new. Some of these paragraphs have been published before, many have not. This book is more than a collection of my essays, for it makes its own points more coherently than that might imply. Think of it as a collection of the last two decades of my thoughts on a particular subject. I like to think that the arguments herein are fleshed out to their fullest and strengthened by force of proximity. But to the reader who is already familiar with my work, portions of chapters 1, 3, and 6 are amplifications of work published in

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