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       Any book recommendations on mystical experiences/testimonies?
       By: Dominik Date: February 16, 2020, 11:51 am
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       Vallicella once mentioned mystics literature where the validity
       of ones expereinces can be examined according to the tradition.
       I am interested in such books with examples and testimonies. Any
       recommendations?
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       Re: Any book recommendations on mystical experiences/testimonies
       ?
       By: guest2 Date: February 16, 2020, 7:31 pm
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       Are you referring to empirically, rather than theologically,
       based investigations of mystical experience? The classic works
       in that vein are probably those of William James and W. T Stace,
       though there are quite a few who have followed in that
       tradition.
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       Re: Any book recommendations on mystical experiences/testimonies
       ?
       By: Brian Date: February 17, 2020, 10:53 am
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       Not sure if you're familiar with Wolfgang Smith, but he has a
       book called Christian Gnosis that sounds like something you
       might be interested in:
  HTML https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597310921/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i9
       The other good place to look is to the mystical saints who knew
       their tradition extremely well, and wrote about their
       experiences in that light: St. John of the Cross, Theresa of
       Avila, Catherine of Genoa, St. Theresa of Lisieux...  These four
       examples in particular come from the book Christ, The Original
       Mystery by Jean Borella, that probably has a good bit of what
       you are looking for in the last 100 pages of the book, but the
       first 300 may not be at all relevant to what you are looking
       for.
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