Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality [Hardcover]

Cattoi and McDaniel present a selection of articles on the role of the body and the spiritual senses - our transfigured channels of sensory perceptions - in the context of spiritual practice. The volume investigates this theme across a variety of different religious traditions within Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism.Introduction: Spiritual Body, Spiritual Senses: Past and Present; J.McDaniel PART I: SPIRITUAL SENSES AND DEIFIED BODIES A Hindu Monk's Appreciation of Eastern Orthodoxy's Jesus Prayer: The 'Inner Senses' of Hearing, Seeing and Feeling in Comparative Perspective; J.Molleur Indo-Tibetan Tantrism as 'Spirit Marriage'; S.R.Sarbacker Experiencing the Single Savior: Divinizing the Body and the Senses in Tantric Buddhist Meditation; D.Gray The Patristic Roots of John Smith's 'True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge'; D.Michaud PART II: ASCETIC PRACTICE AND EMBODIED TRANSCENDENCE The Daoist Mystical Body; L.Komjathy Daoist Mysticism: Embodiment, 'Eudaimonia', and Flow; L.Weed Liminality and Ambiguity: the Role of Bodily Suffering in the Mysticism of Christian the Astonishing; C.Radler , Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University 'The Body Gains its Share': The Asceticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg; M.V.Roberts PART III: EMBODIED SPIRITUALITY AND MODERN MYSTICISM Map of Consciousness: New Paradigm for Mysticism and Healing; F.Grace The Diamond Approach: Towards an Embodied Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century; A.Gleig Reading Wisdom with Reich: Proverbs 8-9 as Interpreted through the Psychotherapy of Wilhelm Reich; N.Douglas-Klotz Conclusion: The Virtues of Form; T.Cattoi

'This collection of essays emerges from a lively collaborative project among scholars of mysticism who employ diverse critical approaches to explore the theme of embodied spirituality in various religious traditions both East and West, as well as some contemporary esoteric movements. Framed by the editors' own insightful analyses,ló.