Current Reading
Three books I'm reading now - reconciling ideas of desire and the erotic through spiritual orientation. Desire is a trap / Desire is the universe. We never operate fully outside the ego, but the erotic allows us to feel into the now. Check out, my man, Ram Dass on Desire here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IySD0_8VMjo&t=132s
Library
332 books across 6 genres
332 books
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy
Simon Critchley
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy
Simon Critchley
Critchley traces the tradition of mystical experience from Meister Eckhart to the present.
About this book
A philosopher takes mysticism seriously — not as irrationality but as a tradition of thought that operates at the limits of language and selfhood. Critchley reads Christian mystics, Sufis, and secular ecstatics to ask what happens when the self encounters something it cannot contain.