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The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystical Experience
Dan Merkur
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/089281862X
Aug. 2001
Preface..........vii
Introduction: The Mystery of Manna..........1
Philo's Vision of God's Existence..........17
The Necessity of Vision..........19
Philo's Meditative Practices........23..
Philo's Conception of Prophecy..........27
Other Varieties of Ecstasy in Philo..........33
Concluding Remarks..........37
The Muslim Revival of Aristotelian Contemplation..........41
The Contemplative Practice of Aristotle..........42
Discursive Meditations in Islam..........45
Concluding Remarks..........51
St. Bernard on Spiritual Marriage..........55
Bernard's Use of Augustine's Categories..........58
Bernard on Intellectualist Mysticism..........60
Bernard on Trance-Based Mysticism..........61
Spiritual Marriage in Bernard's Experience..........65
Bernard's Practice of Meditation..........69
Hitbonenut and Prophecy in the Maimonides Family..........75
Death and Resurrection at Sinai..........78
Maimonides on Prophecy..........80
Maimonides on the Prophecy of Moses..........83
Maimonides on Meditation..........91
Abraham Maimonides..........96
Obadyah Maimonides..........98
Afterword..........105
Notes..........108
Index ..........129
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