Mysticism and Experience discusses the dynamic relationship between revelation and personal experience epitomized by, but not exclusive to mystical experience. The author argues that the inner, personal understanding of nature, God, and the self that one acquires through feeling and connection is similar to a mystical experience, and that this inner knowledge is as important as the outer knowledge gained through our rational faculties. He approaches his subject through an analysis of the writings of the great German mystic Jacob B'hme. Deeply influenced by the growth of modern science and with ties to the 16th century spiritual and achemical philosophy, B'hme is seen as trying to balance the rational/spiritual scales that we are still discussing today.
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Russell H. Hvolbek received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of California at San Diego and the University of Iowa. Currently he is the Academic Dean at Valley Torah High School, North Hollywood California.
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We think that we can think about anything, that we have such immutably correct reasoning, that we can craft impervious arguments with epistemic power. However, we forget that this is merely a biological, mental process. There are humans that exist without such reasoning capabilities. Does this make them less valid as human beings?Animals can not reason. But they can feel. Does this make us superior? My point is that elitist intellectuals think that they know everything. They ration away the emotion of life, the very humanity of their being. With no feelings and no emotions, they numbly reason through life in cold, detached skepticism. Where is the spirituality? (Human, not religious.) Have we lost all capacity for empathy? For hope? For faith? (Again, not religious per se) Thinking is not complete without feeling.
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Incomplete,
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While this book does make a decent attempt to explore the questions it brings up, it fails to fully take into account the depth of the concepts and sources it uses to make its points.
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