The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition

Chapter 1 Experiencing the Divine in Plato

Chapter 2 Prayer as a drōmenon in the Hermetic Initiative Texts

Chapter 3 Mystical Experience in Theurgical Practice

Chapter 4 Gymnastics of the Mind: The Theory of gymnos nous in Maximus the Confessor

Chapter 5 Ascending to the Third Heaven? A Missing Tradition of Latin Mysticism

Chapter 6 The Experience of God in the Mystical Language of Meister Eckhart

Chapter 7 Hugo van der Goes Reading Johannes Tauler? A Literary Context for the Berlin Nativity

Chapter 8 Mediating the Immediate: Richard Rolle’s Mystical Experience in the Translations of his Self-Revelations

Chapter 9 Confined Meditation or Mediated Contemplation: Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

Chapter 10 What Is the Purpose of Human Life? – Immediate Experience of God in Pico’s Works

Chapter 11 Characters of Giordano Bruno’s Mysticism

Chapter 12 The Experience of God in Pascal’s Religious Texts

Chapter 13 Communicative Experience of God in Prayer

Chapter 14 What (If Anything) Can Justify the Objective Truth of an Alleged Immediate Experience of God?

Chapter 15 Pantheistic Ways of Immediate Experience of God: Spinoza and the Early Schelling

Chapter 16 At the Sources of Simone Weil’s Mysticism

Chapter 17 The Mystical After Auschwitz

Chapter 18 “Ein Spiel der Worte, in dem das »Urwirkliche« atmet.” The Birth of the Mystical Word According to Carl Albrecht

Chapter 19 A World in Which Everything Is “Here.” Northrop Frye’s Immanent Vision of the Divine

Chapter 20 A Lonely Lutheran Mystic During Communism. The Spiritual Heritage of Bishop Lajos Ordass (1901–1978)

Chapter 21 “It is the Mind That Hears it, Not the Ear…” Sounds, Lights, Visions in Peasant Mysticism

Chapter 22 Experience of God, Reflected by Projective Drawings