Holy Madness
Subtitle: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus
Contributors: Roger Walsh (Foreword)
Publisher: Penguin (Arkana)
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780140193701
Subjects: Contemporary non-Christian cults & sects; General; Religion / General; New Age / Parapsychology; New Age; Spiritual Life; Gurus
First sentence: Our secularized world is witnessing a widespread revival of interest in the experiential, mystical dimension of religion, which can broadly be called "spirituality."
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; title: Foreword
pagenum: xv; title: Preface
pagenum: xix; title: The Phenomenon
label: Part One; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 3
title: Holy Madness: Moderate Spiritual Eccentrics in Different Religious Traditions; title: The Upside Down World of Tricksters and Clowns
label: 1.; title: The Fools for Christ's Sake: Folly as Virtue
label: 2.; title: The Sufi Path of Blame
label: 3.; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 20
title: Crazy Wisdom: Radical Spiritual Eccentrics in Different Religious Traditions; title: The Avadhutas, Masts, and Bauls: India's Countercultural Heroes
label: 1.; title: The Crazy Adepts of Tibet
label: 2.; title: The Zen Masters of China and Japan: Traditional Shock Therapists
label: 3.; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 54
title: The Feats and Foibles of Contemporary Crazy Wisdom Adepts: From Rascal Gurus to Spiritual Clowns; title: Gurdjieff: The Rascal Guru
label: 1.; title: Aleister Crowley: The Mad Magus
label: 2.; title: Bhagwan Rajneesh (Osho): The God-Man of Subterfuge
label: 3.; title: Chogyam Trungpa: The Prowling Tiger of Crazy Wisdom
label: 4.; title: Lee Lozowick: A Spiritual Clown
label: 5.; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 80
title: The Many Faces fo Da Love-Ananda (Da Free John); title: The Early Years
label: 1.; title: Crazy Wisdom and the Futility of Experience
label: 2.; title: Crazy-Wise Chaos and the Community of Devotees
label: 3.; title: The Context
label: Part Two; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 103
title: Spiritual Practice: The Path Beyond All Paths; title: The Long Search
label: 1.; title: The Snare of Pop Spirituality
label: 2.; title: The Paradox of Discipline
label: 3.; title: The "Heat" of Spiritual Discipline
label: 4.; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 123
title: The Guru: License to Kill; title: False Images of the Guru
label: 1.; title: The Guru Function: Broadcasting God
label: 2.; title: Jesus and Divinization
label: 3.; title: True Gurus, False Gurus, Crazy Gurus
label: 4.; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 146
title: Discipleship: Spiritual Cloning or Brainwashing?; title: The Time-Honored Tradition of Spiritual Discipleship
label: 1.; title: Individualism and Obedience
label: 2.; title: Levels of Conversion
label: 3.; title: Cultism, Guru-Worship, and Freedom
label: 4.; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 166
title: God, Enlightenment, and Ego-Death; title: The Loss of God and Faith
label: 1.; title: Enlightenment and the Transcendence of Attention
label: 2.; title: A New Life Through Ego-Death
label: 3.; title: The Significance
label: Part Three; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 187
title: Holy Madness and the Smoke Screen of Consensus Reality; title: A Test Case
label: 1.; title: Conventional Religion as Counterfeit Spirituality
label: 2.; title: The Mystical Ego
label: 3.; title: The Humanistic Way of Self-Actualization
label: 4.; title: The Ego "Illusion"
label: 5.; title: The Cult of Scientism
label: 6.; title: Religious Provincialism
label: 7.; title: Cultural Veils over Authentic Spirituality
label: 8.; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 204
title: Understanding Holy Madness; title: Holy Madness Revisited
label: 1.; title: Of Holiness, Wisdom, and Ignorance
label: 2.; title: Holy Madness, Spontaneity, and the Chaos of Existence
label: 3.; title: The Playfulness and Humor of Enlightenment and Crazy Wisdom
label: 4.; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 230
title: Holiness, Madness, and Morality; title: Madness and Holy Madness
label: 1.; title: The Personality of Adepts: Self-Transcendence and Compassion
label: 2.; title: Holy Folly and the Transcendence of Good and Evil
label: 3.; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 255; title: Notes
pagenum: 261; title: Bibliographic References
pagenum: 281; title: Index
pagenum: 289