29,366 words (≈ about 2 hours)
'Essays on spirituality' consists of over a dozen short and medium length articles on spiritual themes. They were written as the author was coming to an understanding of his own mystical experiences and the theological and philosophical content that they displayed. References are made to the Journal of these experiences - 'The Song of Simon' - also available on Feedbooks. The themes covered in this volume include: ABANDONING MATERIALISM CHARACTERISTICS OF MYSTICAL… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-02-20
Word count: 29,366 words (≈ about 2 hours)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: Materialism, Spirituality, Suffering, evil, God, afterlife, death, truth, Ignorance, mysticism
Pilgrim Simon has spent forty years exploring spirituality. He gained a degree in psychology and post graduate qualifications in counselling and was for a time a member of the British Psychological Society, contributing to their Transpersonal Psychology Journal. He has had a number of mystical experiences and has also been diagnosed as Bi-Polar or Manic-Depressive. It is this set of circumstances that contribute to the themes of his studies, and enable him to look at his subjects with personal insight. His studies draw not only from personal experience but also from many religious and spiritual traditions as well as from psychology, psychiatry and Transpersonal psychology including thinkers such as Shankara, Ibn Al-Arabi, Meister Eckhart, David Waite, George Kelly, Ken Wilber, Arthur Deikman and Karen Armstrong. Some studies are purely Christian in content, whilst others draw on a wider spiritual perspective
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