Holy madness
Subtitle: spirituality, crazy-wise teachers, and enlightenment
By: Georg Feuerstein.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Hohm Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Prescott, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Subjects: Spiritual life; Religion; Gurus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by / Roger Walsh; title: Author's preface to the revised edition; title: Preface to the first edition; title: The phenomenon; title: Crazy wisdom in action : spiritual eccentrics in various religious traditions; title: The upside-down world of tricksters and clowns; title: The fools for Christ's sake : folly as virtue; title: The sufi path of blame; title: Jewish ecstatics; title: Radical spiritual eccentrics of the east; title: The avadhutas, masts, and bauls : India's countercultural heroes; title: The crazy adepts of Tibet; title: The zen masters of China and Japan : traditional shock therapists; title: Contemporary crazy-wisdom teachers : from Rascal gurus to "spiritual" terrorists; title: Preamble; title: Chigyam Trungpa : prowling tiger of crazy wisdom; title: Lee Lozowick : crazy minstrel; title: Gurdjieff : rascal guru; title: Aleister Crowley : mad magus; title: Bhagwan Rajneesh (Osho) : divine philosopher; title: Sathya Sai Baba : counterfeit avatar; title: Shoko Asahara : "spiritual" terrorist; title: The many faces of Adi Da (Franklin Jones); title: The early years; title: Crazy wisdom and the futility of experience; title: Crazy-wise chaos and the community of devotees; title: The context; title: Spiritual practice : the path beyond all paths; title: The long search; title: The snare of pop spirituality; title: The paradox of discipline; title: The "heat" of spiritual practice; title: The guru : license to kill; title: False images of the guru; title: The guru function : broadcasting God; title: Jesus and divinization; title: True gurus, false gurus, crazy gurus; title: Discipleship : spiritual cloning or brainwashing?; title: The time-honored tradition of spiritual discipleship; title: Individualism and obedience; title: Levels of conversion; title: Cultism, guru-worship, and freedom; title: God, Enlightenment, and ego-death; title: The loss of God and faith; title: The ego illusion; title: The mystical ego; title: Enlightenment and the transcendence of attention; title: A new life through ego-death; title: The significance; title: Holy madness and the smokescreen of consensus reality; title: A test case; title: Conventional religion as counterfeit spirituality; title: The humanistic way of self-actualization; title: The cult of; title: Religious provincialism; title: Cultural veils over authentic spirituality; title: Understanding holy madness; title: Holy madness revisited; title: Of holiness, wisdom, and ignorance; title: Holy madness, spontaneity, and the chaos of existence; title: The playfulness and humor of Enlightenment and crazy wisdom; title: Holiness, madness, and morality; title: Madness and holy madness; title: The personality of adepts : self-transcendence and compassion; title: Holy folly and the transcendence of good and evil.