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Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism Commotion and Unity This is one of those rare anthologies that is worth its price more for the editor's introductory remarks than for the anthologized essays. Don't misunderstand me. Buber does a wonderful job of selecting mystical "ecstatic confessions" from the world's religious traditions. He includes passages from writers such as Rumi, Rabia, Symeon the New Theologian, Hildegard of Bingen, the Beguines, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena, as well as representative selections from works such as the Mahabharata. For the most part the selections are judicious--although, because the book was published in 1909, twentieth century mystics such as Simone Weil and Thomas Kelley naturally aren't included. Curiously, too, only a tiny snippet from Meister Eckhart makes it into Buber's book. But what really makes the book invaluable is Buber's Introduction, in which he spells out his distinction between the "commotion" that distracts us from a unitive experience of God and the nature of the "unity" sought by the mystics. The distinction is one that, under the guise of other terms (such as "many" and "one") is well-known in mystical literature. But Buber's beautiful prose, and especially his sensitivity to the importance of silence, are unmatchable. Here's an example (p. 7): "Silence is our symbolon which protects us from the gods and angels of the commotion, our guard against its aberrations, our purification against its purity. We ensilence our experience, and it is a star that travels along its path. We speak it, and it is thrown down under the thread of the market." A book that deserves to be better known. --Reviewer: Kerry Walters from Lewisburg, PA USA

Minds: The Minds of Existentialism: The Realm of Existentialism houses an eclectic aggregation of Philosophers, Poets, Psychologists, Playwrights and Theologians -- all major league players -- indepth biographies, books and reviews, quotations, and a state-of-the-art bookstore for a more in-depth exploration, One-on-One. to name a few: Karl Barth, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Martin Buber, Albert Camus, E. M. Cioran, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Martin Heidegger, William James, Karl Jaspers, Franz Kafka, Soren Kierkegaard, Abraham H. Maslow, Friedrich Nietzsche, Blaise Pascal, Jean Paul Sartre, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Tillich, Theatre of the Absurd

Existential Basics: Basic Themes of Existentialism: The Bare Essentials for the Mind-on-Fire, a quick overview of some of the basic, ever-winding, rivers that run through Existentialism and the human experience; love, anxiety, stress, solitude, relationships, failure, sadness, death, loneliness, human frailty etc. A very meaty section in the Realm of Existentialism, and frequently up-dated! Topics such as: What is Existentialism? | Basic Themes of Existentialism | Existential-Speak | Existential Themed Books and Reviews | Existentialism and the Human Situation | Existentialism and the American Consciousness | Existentialism and Moral Individualism | Subjectivity and Existentialism | Existentialism, Choice and Commitment | Irrational Man : A Study in Existential Philosophy | Existentialism's Dread and Anxiety | Existentialism : Man and Human Relationships | Existentialism and the Significance of Being | World, Limits, Existence -- Existentialism | Problems of Existentialist Theology | Modern Existentialist and Phenomenological Studies | What is Phenomenology?

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