Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Psychological and Cultural Bases of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Modern Western Society
6. Phenomenology and Psychodynamics of Transpersonal Experience 11
7. A. H. Almaas and the Synthesis of Spiritual Development and Psychoanalytic Object-Relations Theory 35
8. The Sociology of Inner-Worldly Mysticism in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch 57
9. The Historical Roots of Inner-Worldly Mysticism: Prototypes of Crisis and Resolution in Plotinus, Epictetus, and Gnosticism
10. Plotinus and Hellenistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism 81
11. Gnosticism: Mystical Dualism and the Metaphysics of Hate 101
12. Transpersonal Anticipations and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Precursors to a Naturalistic Inner-Worldly Mysticism
13. Nietzsche 125
14. Emerson, Thoreau, and Hiram Marble: New England Transcendentalism and a Brief Look at Spiritualism 147
15. Some Political Ambiguities in the Development of Presence: Inner-Worldly Mysticism, Metapathology, and National Socialism
16. Jung, Visionary Racial Occultism, and Hitler 173
17. “Triumph of the Will”: Heidegger’s Nazism as Spiritual Pathology 199
18. Roots of a Contemporary This-Worldly Spirituality
19. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff: A Near Eastern Inner-Worldly Mysticism in the Modern West 225
20. Aleister Crowley, Sexual Magick, and Drugs: Some Ambiguities of Sex, Will, and Power in Inner-Worldly Mysticism 251
21. Feminist Spirituality: The Return of Sophia 279
22. Transpersonal Psychology, New Age Spirituality, and the Human Sciences
23. Concluding Reflections 303
24. Notes 319
25. References 327
26. Index 353