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ISBN10: 0231153627, ISBN13: 9780231153621, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover First Edition Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 622pp 8vo. [Omaha, NE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]
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Hardback. New. While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding. Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term "dream-ego" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's ...
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ISBN10: 0231153627, ISBN13: 9780231153621, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover 2012. Hardcover. Num Pages: 644 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1020. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]
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