Beyond Reason: Transrational Contemplation And Greek Mystical Philosophy
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;advisor: Christopher M. Aanstoos
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Institute Of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California
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: 2007
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IX, 385p.
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UMI Microform 3276406
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Ph.D
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, Institute Of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California
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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.