The problem of pure consciousness
Subtitle: mysticism and philosophy
By: edited by Robert K.C. Forman.
Contributors: Forman, Robert K. C.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Mysticism.; Consciousness -- Religious aspects.
Notes: "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman; title: I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple; title: Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths; title: Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman; title: Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg; title: Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond; title: Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt; title: Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr.; title: On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse; title: Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler; title: Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin.