Ecstatic Confessions
Subtitle: The Heart of Mysticism (Martin Buber Library)
Contributors: Martin Buber (Editor); Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (Editor); Esther Cameron (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: September 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780815604228
Subjects: Mysticism; Religion: general; Christian Mysticism; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Religion; General; History & Surveys - Modern; Ecstasy
Description: Available for the first time in paperback, Ecstatic Confessions is Martin Buber's unique, personal gathering of the testimonies of mystics throughout the centuries expressing their encounters with the divine. It features the author's seminal introduction to mysticism, "Ecstasy and Confession," which probes the nature of what Buber terms the "most inward of all experiences.... God's highest gift.".

Buber sifted through texts from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim sources down the centuries to cull those moving records that manage to convey some quality of an experience that is essentially beyond the power of words to capture.

Ecstatic Confessions orchestrates these reports from the edge of human experience into a revealing look at the nature of the ecstatic experience itself and the tension arising from the mystic's compelling need to give witness to an event that can never truly be verbalized.