{"product_id":"the-awakened-ones-phenomenology-of-visionary-experience-paperback","title":"The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGananath Obeyesekere\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational depths of such phenomena, reawakening the intuitive, creative impulses that power greater understanding. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term \"dream-ego\" through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGananath Obeyesekere is professor emeritus of anthropology at Princeton University. His books include \u003ci\u003eCannibal Talk: Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Sea\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eImagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLand Tenure in Village Ceylon\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMedusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Cult of the Goddess Pattini\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBuddhism Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the prize for most outstanding book in sociology and anthropology from the Association of American Publishers and the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 644\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53044911440096,"sku":"9780231153638","price":80.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/jze0FLxklf9780231153638.webp?v=1781480231","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-awakened-ones-phenomenology-of-visionary-experience-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}