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__Zen and the Unspeakable God__ reevaluates how we study mystical experience. Forsaking the prescriptive epistemological box that has constrained the conversation for decades, ensuring that methodology has overshadowed subject matter, Jason Blum proposes a new interpretive approach—one that begins with a mystic’s own beliefs about the nature of mystical experience. Blum brings this approach to bear on the experiential accounts of three mystical exemplars: Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-ʿArabi, and Hui-neng. Through close readings of their texts, he uncovers the mystics’ own fundamental assumptions about transcendence and harnesses these as interpretive guides to their experiences. The predominant theory-first path to interpretation has led to the misunderstanding and misrepresentation of individual mystical experiences and fostered specious conclusions about cross-cultural comparability among them. Blum’s hermeneutic invites the scholarly community to begin thinking about mystical experience in a new way—through the mystics’ eyes. __Zen and the Unspeakable God__ offers a sampling of the provocative results of this technique and an explanation of its implications for theories of consciousn

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Author

Jason N. Blum

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271074696

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, History