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1. In the Land of Oz: Childhood and Adolescence
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Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Opening: “You Should Write Fiction” 1
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Corpus
- 1. In the Land of Oz: Childhood and Adolescence 19
- 2. “My Eros Has Been Crucified”: Puberty, Asceticism, and Neurosis 30
- 3. That Night: Wherein the Knowing Energies Zap Me 46
- 4. The Erotic Mystic: Kālī’s Child and the Backlash against It 56
- 5. The Transmoral Mystic: What Both the Moralists and the Devotees Get Wrong 79
- 6. How They Really Came to Their Ideas: The Deeper Roots of Thought and Theory 97
- 7. The Gnostic Reversal: The Snake That Bites Its Own Tail 119
- 8. Wendy’s Student: Mythical Paradox and Political Censorship 133
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Mysticum
- 9. That Other Night: The Future of the Body and Evolutionary Esotericism 165
- 10. The Filter Thesis: The Irreducible Nature of Mind and the Spirit of the Humanities 192
- 11. The Rise of the Paranormal: And Some Related X Factors in the Study of Religion 228
- 12. La Pensée Surhumaine: Paraphysics, the Super Story, and Invisible Colleges 261
- 13. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities 296
- 14. The Super Natural: Biological Gods, the Traumatic Secret, and the Future (of) Race 312
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Meum
- 15. The New Comparativism: What It Is and How to Do It 353
- Closing: What the New Sacred Is (Not) 399
- Airport Afterword 423
- Appendix: The Gnomons 427
- The Method of All Methods 433
- Acknowledgments 435
- Notes 437
- Index of My Brain 465
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Opening: “You Should Write Fiction” 1
-
Corpus
- 1. In the Land of Oz: Childhood and Adolescence 19
- 2. “My Eros Has Been Crucified”: Puberty, Asceticism, and Neurosis 30
- 3. That Night: Wherein the Knowing Energies Zap Me 46
- 4. The Erotic Mystic: Kālī’s Child and the Backlash against It 56
- 5. The Transmoral Mystic: What Both the Moralists and the Devotees Get Wrong 79
- 6. How They Really Came to Their Ideas: The Deeper Roots of Thought and Theory 97
- 7. The Gnostic Reversal: The Snake That Bites Its Own Tail 119
- 8. Wendy’s Student: Mythical Paradox and Political Censorship 133
-
Mysticum
- 9. That Other Night: The Future of the Body and Evolutionary Esotericism 165
- 10. The Filter Thesis: The Irreducible Nature of Mind and the Spirit of the Humanities 192
- 11. The Rise of the Paranormal: And Some Related X Factors in the Study of Religion 228
- 12. La Pensée Surhumaine: Paraphysics, the Super Story, and Invisible Colleges 261
- 13. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities 296
- 14. The Super Natural: Biological Gods, the Traumatic Secret, and the Future (of) Race 312
-
Meum
- 15. The New Comparativism: What It Is and How to Do It 353
- Closing: What the New Sacred Is (Not) 399
- Airport Afterword 423
- Appendix: The Gnomons 427
- The Method of All Methods 433
- Acknowledgments 435
- Notes 437
- Index of My Brain 465
