The Spiritual Crisis of Man
Author | : Paul Brunton |
Publisher | : Red Wheel |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Human beings |
ISBN | : 9780877285939 |
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Author | : Paul Brunton |
Publisher | : Red Wheel |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Human beings |
ISBN | : 9780877285939 |
Author | : Brunton Paul |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788172250126 |
Author | : Stanislav Grof |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1989-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0874775388 |
From Spiritual Emergency to Healing and Rebirth Increasing numbers of people involved in personal transformation are experiencing spiritual emergencies — crises when the process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming. Individuals experiencing such episodes may feel that their sense of identity is breaking down, that their old values no longer hold true, and that the very ground beneath their personal realities is radically shifting. In many cases, new realms of mystical and spiritual experience enter their lives suddenly and dramatically, resulting in fear and confusion. They may feel tremendous anxiety, have difficulty coping with their daily lives, jobs, and relationships, and may even fear for their own sanity. Unfortunately, much of modern psychiatry has failed to distinguish these episodes from mental illness. As a result, transformational crises are often suppressed by routine psychiatric care, medication, and even institutionalization. However, there is a new perspective developing among many mental health professionals and those studying spiritual development that views such crises as transformative breakthroughs that can hold tremendous potential for physical and emotional healing. When understood and treated in a supportive manner, spiritual emergencies can become gateways to higher levels of functioning and new ways of being. In this book, foremost psychologists, psychiatrists, and spiritual teachers address the following questions: What is spiritual emergency? What is the relationship between spirituality, “madness,” and healing? What forms does spiritual emergency take? What are the pitfalls — and promises — of spiritual practice? How can people in spiritual emergency be assisted by family, friends, and professionals? This groundbreaking work reveals that within the crisis of spiritual emergency lies the promise of spiritual emergence and renewal.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : Kazi Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Human ecology |
ISBN | : 9781871031652 |
This is a spiritual tour de force which explores the relationship between Man and Nature as found in Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, particularly its Sufi dimension.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1988-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780933999114 |
Author | : Harold K. Bush |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2007-01-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0817315381 |
Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. This book highlights Twain's attractions to and engagements with the variety of religious phenomena of America in his lifetime. It offers a more complicated understanding of Twain and his literary output.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophical anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophical anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Philosophical anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Greif |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2015-01-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400852102 |
A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury America In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers this lost line of thought to show how it influenced society, politics, and culture before, during, and long after World War II. During the 1930s and 1940s, fears of the barbarization of humanity energized New York intellectuals, Chicago protoconservatives, European Jewish émigrés, and native-born bohemians to seek "re-enlightenment," a new philosophical account of human nature and history. After the war this effort diffused, leading to a rebirth of modern human rights and a new power for the literary arts. Critics' predictions of a "death of the novel" challenged writers to invest bloodless questions of human nature with flesh and detail. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Richard Wright wrote flawed novels of abstract man. Succeeding them, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon constituted a new guard who tested philosophical questions against social realities—race, religious faith, and the rise of technology—that kept difference and diversity alive. By the 1960s, the idea of "universal man" gave way to moral antihumanism, as new sensibilities and social movements transformed what had come before. Greif's reframing of a foundational debate takes us beyond old antagonisms into a new future, and gives a prehistory to the fractures of our own era.