Roots of Western Mysticism

Week 14

Mysticism after early modernism; Epilogue: Why Studying Mysticism is a Really Bad Idea.

Modern Philosophers and Mystics

• Leibnitz (1646-1716)
  • Leibnitziana
  • Leibniz, Monadology
• Swedenborg, Emmanuel (1688-1772)
  • Swedenborg Foundation
  • Swedenborg Society (publisher)
  • Swedenborgian Church
    • Beliefs of Swedenborgianism
  • Swedenborg Digital Library Bookshelf
• Theosophy
  • Theosophy Links
  • Theosophy Library Online
  • Theosophical Society in America
    • About Theosophy
  • Blavatsky (1831-1891)
    • Blavatsky Net
    • Secret Doctrine
    • The Key to Theosophy
    • William Q. Judge articles
• Gurdjieff (1877-1949) & Ouspensky (1878-1947)
  • Gurdjieff International Review
  • Gurdjieff Internet Guide
  • Gurdjieff Movements
  • Jacob Needleman, "Gurdjieff and his School"
  • Needleman and Baker, "A Summary of the Theosophy of Gurdieff"
  • Peter Ouspensky
  • M. E. Taylor, Peter Ouspensky - A Biographical Outline
  • Fourth Way
    • Fourth Way: Gurdjieff Ouspensky School
    • Fourth Way (Wikipedia)
  • Enneagram
    • Enneagram Institute
      • Online Enneagram test
    • Enneagram Central
    • Enneagram (Wikipedia)
• Martin Buber (1878-1967)
  • Bertman, Martin. Buber: Mysticism Without Loss of Identity
  • Buber, Martin. Concerning Jacob Boehme
• Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925)
  • Rudolph Steiner Archives
  • Steiner, Rudolph. Knowledge of the Higher World and its Attainment
• Carl Jung (1875-1961)
  • Jung Page
  • Jung, "Psychological Types"
  • Marc Fonda, "Summary of Jung's Psychology"
  • James Arraj, St. John of the Cross and Dr. C.G. Jung: Christian Mysticism in the Light of Jungian Psychology
  • Steven Hoeller, "The Gnostic Jung"
  • Mystical Experiences of Carl Jung
• Thomas Merton
  • Connors, James. The Meaning of the Contemplative Life According to Thomas Merton
  • Thomas Merton Center and International Thomas Merton Society
  • Thomas Merton Resources
  • Thomas Merton Resources - Gene Thursby
• George Bataille
  • Hollywood, Amy. Bataille and Mysticism: A "Dazzling Dissolution" Diacritics 26.2, Summer 1996: 74-87. Also here
• Wittgenstein
• Derrida
  • S. Drob, "Derrida and the Lurianic Kabbalah"
  • M. Kavka "The Rationality of Derrida's Religion Without Religion"

Scholars on Mysticism

• William James
  • Bengson, John. On the Value of Mystical and Religious Experience
  • Hodges, Michael. The Claims for Mysticism in The Varieties of Religious Experience.
  • James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience. Also here and here.
  • Ruetenik, Tadd. Disclosing William James: A Tough-Minded Male Philosopher Copes with Tender Minded Women Mystics
• Evelyn Underhill
  • The Evelyn Underhill Association
• Jacques Maritain
  • Mysticism: Its True Nature and Value