Table of Contents

I. The experiences
1: Extrovertive mystical experience: definition and incidence
2: `Being all, knowing all, loving all': phenomenology
3: Sex, drugs, and Beethoven? Circumstances and consequences
II. The explanations
4: Divine cosmos: encountering spirit in nature
5: Empty your mind: uncovering pure consciousness
6: Scholars lock horns: construction or deconstruction?
7: On the couch, in the lab: pathology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience
8: Mind beyond the brain: reducing valves and metaphysics
9: Fashions, failures, prospects

About the Author

Paul Marshall is an independent scholar with research interests in the philosophy and psychology of religion, the philosophy of mind, and the study of science and religion.

Reviews

Marshall has produced an important, careful book that deserves to be widely read by students of psychology, philosophy, religion, and anomalous experience. Matt Colborn, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research