Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
4. Part I: Cognitive Analyses of Intentional Transformative Experiences
5. Chapter 2 “A Ridiculous Story”: Sri Sabhapati Swami’s Flight to the Celestial Mountain 25
6. Chapter 3 Direct Transcendence: A Cognitive Perspective on Meditation as an Intentional Transformative Experience 47
7. Chapter 4 Liberation from the Ordinary: The Unseen in Religious Experience 71
8. Part II: Societal and Cultural Analyses of Intentional Transformative Experiences
9. Chapter 5 ‘Only This Will Bring Results’: Practising Gurdjieff’s Exercises in a Search Culture 97
10. Chapter 6 Two Kinds of Experiences: Modern Prāṇāyāma Between the Context of “Science” and “Self-Culture” 121
11. Part III: Analyses of Individuals’ Intentional Transformative Experiences
12. Chapter 7 A Suggestive Inquiry into Hermetic Rebirth: Nondual Noēsis and Bodily Fluids in Victorian England 149
13. Chapter 8 Approaching a Universal Pattern? Gopi Krishna’s Transformational Kuṇḍalinī Experience within the Frame of Universalism and Religious Scientism 179
14. Chapter 9 Building a Typology for Intentional Transformative Experiences: Louis- Alphonse Cahagnet’s Experiments with Magnetic Somnambulism and Hashish 211
15. Part IV: Conceptual Analyses of Intentional Transformative Experiences
16. Chapter 10 Intentionality and Non-Intentionality in Jung’s Active Imagination 243
17. Chapter 11 Intentional Transformative Experiences and the Concept of Religious Experience 271
18. Chapter 12 Through the Looking-Glass: A Stage-Based Approach to the Intentional Transformative Experience of Reality Shifting 293
19. Contributors 325
20. Index 329