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The mystical way

William Johnston ; with a new foreword

(Fount paperbacks)

Harper Collins, 1993

  • : pbk

Available at  / 2 libraries

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"Originally published as Silent Music (1974) and The wounded stag (1984)"--T.p.

"Revised and introduced by William Johnston"--Cover

Contents of Works

  • Silent music
  • The wounded stag

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A compilation of two books: "Silent Music" which deals with meditation in the great world religions, aiming to temper a purely materialistic culture and re-invest science with a sense of the divine within nature, and "The Wounded Stag" which looks solely at the Christian mystical tradition.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Silent music: meditation - the meditation movement, the new science, brainwave and biofeedback, the science of mysticism
  • consciousness - initiation, the road to ecstasy, return to the market-place, a perilous journey
  • healing - meditation therapy and passive energy, the healing of the mind, the deeper healing, cosmic healing
  • intimacy - meditation and intimacy, mystical friendship, friendship the cosmic dimension
  • epilogue - convergence. Part 2 The wounded stag: the desert
  • Christian mysticism
  • Moses the mystic
  • presence and absence
  • conflict
  • covenant and conversion
  • Jesus mysticism
  • Eucharistic mysticism
  • mysticism and life
  • mysticism and poverty
  • mysticism and peace
  • the Irish conflict
  • the woman
  • epilogue.

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