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Modern Mystical Philosophy
Modern mystical, existential, and philosophical writings at the edge of theology, attention, and spiritual practice.
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Texts
Nature Mysticism — J. Edward MercerJ. Edward Mercer’s 1913 study of the mystical response to external nature, by the Bishop of Tasmania: thirty-four chapters arguing for a nature mysticism of direct communion with the Real, then tracing water, air, fire, light, sky, moon, earth and the seasons through animism, myth and modern poetry.Simone Weil — From the NotebooksSelections from Simone Weil's thirteenth notebook (October 1942) — theological reflections on creation, scripture in Greek, and reading notes on the Stoics, Pre-Socratics, and Aeschylus.