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78 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
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Fabulous book, difficult to explain.,
This review is from: The Cloud of Unknowing: A New Translation of the Classic 14th-Century Guide to the Spiritual Experience (Paperback)
This is a sort of humanistic psychology book that speaks of Western Christianity. Ira Progof has done just a fantastic job of captivating his audience. It is a translation of one of the classics of Christianity, but it is written in laymans terms and just absolutely brilliant. Ira Progof does the best job of translating this classic guide to spiritual experience that I am now looking for other books written by him. The translation speaks so well of inner depths and souls and things you may have always wondered but were never really sure of spiritually. I found myself staying up late at night, anxious to finish, but not anxious to end it! I may just read it again. There are passages that are so deep and so meaningful that I found myself reading them over and over. Some may find these passages I speak of vague, and they are. Yet they are worth understanding. This book takes effort and the pay-off is astounding.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Dr. Progoff has a vast mind.,
This review is from: The Cloud of Unknowing: A New Translation of the Classic 14th-Century Guide to the Spiritual Experience (Paperback)
I would say that until a person has read The Psyche As Sacrament: A Comparative Study of C.G. Jung and Paul Tillich (Studies in Jungian Psychology), and has become familiar with both the leanings and orientations of both, then the Cloud of Unknowing would remain an esoteric and more or less inscrutable account of the inner life of a mystical relationship between man and God. This would remain true unless of course a person had already attained a particular view on the mystical and spiritual by experience, through which then his/her understanding will unfold as granted according to the need.
3 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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Weird and not much information,
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This review is from: The Cloud of Unknowing: A New Translation of the Classic 14th-Century Guide to the Spiritual Experience (Paperback)
I was disappointed in this book, it was weird and I got very little information out of it. Maybe I thought it was going to be about something else but in my opinion, it's not very spiritual or informative unfortunately.
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MORE THAN ANY OTHER, the present period of history should have a humble and open-minded attitude toward all possible sources of knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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MORE THAN ANY OTHER, the present period of history should have a humble and open-minded attitude toward all possible sources of knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperfect meekness, meek stirring, blind stirring, fleshly heart, habitual sinners, naked being, own wretchedness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Church, God Himself, Saint Stephen, Saint Martin, New York, Passion of Christ, Zen Buddhism, Holy Spirit, Lady Saint Mary New!
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- Cloud of Unknowing (Analecta Cortusiana Ser No. 3) by Phyllis Hodgson on page 15
- The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. by Ernest Jones on page 5
- Zen Buddhism by Daisetz T. Suzuki on page 32
- Depth Psychology and Modern Man by Ira Progoff in Back Matter
- Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot on page 2
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- Robert K. Greenleaf: A Life of Servant Leadership by Don M Frick on page 205, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- God Encountered: A Contemporary Catholic Systematic Theology by Frans Jozef van Beeck on page 85, page 86, and Back Matter
- Moral Education in America: Its Future in an Age of Personal Autonomy and Multiculturalism by Gary Quinn on page 86, page 89, and Back Matter
- Asian Contributions to Psychology by Anand C. Paranjpe on page 29, page 49, and page 212
- The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart by Radmila Moacanin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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