Beyond Reason: Transrational Contemplation And Greek Mystical Philosophy
;advisor: Christopher M. Aanstoos
Institute Of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California
: 2007
IX, 385p.
UMI Microform 3276406
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Ph.D
, Institute Of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California
Metaphysical ancient Greek philosophers had emphasized an almost forgotten integral practice of deep "transrational" contemplation by which they used the rational, reasoning mind as a key to unlock the noetic awareness of the higher Mind. These mystical philosophers ranged their contemplations along a broad spectrum of subjects such as cosmology, mathematics, philosophy, and music. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Plotinus believed that such contemplative meditations could have profound consciousness-expanding effects wherein the individual could have a deeper, more direct awareness of personal and cosmological reality.