Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. List Of Abbreviations xix
5. Introduction 1
6. Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings 19
7. Book 2. Mahāyāna: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision 75
8. Book 3. The Cosmic “It”: The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals 127
9. Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul 169
10. Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason 243
11. Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East 325
12. Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming 363
13. Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth 441
14. Envoi—Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer’S Dream and the Return of the Vultures 473
15. Notes 477
16. Glossary 597
17. Index 601