{"product_id":"9780271070797-zen-and-the-unspeakable-god","title":"Zen and the Unspeakable God","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComparative Interpretations of Mystical Experience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn interpretive approach to the study of mystical experience. Compares the experiences of Meister Eckhart, Ibn Arabi, and Hui-neng to reveal commonalities that have provocative implications for our understanding of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZen and the Unspeakable God \u003c\/i\u003ereevaluates 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eZen and the Unspeakable God \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a sampling of the provocative results of this technique and an explanation of its implications for theories of consciousness and our contemporary understanding of the nature of mystical experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40928664289377,"sku":"9780271070797","price":58.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27660033.jpg?v=1721981885","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780271070797-zen-and-the-unspeakable-god","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}