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Abe, Masao 77n60
Abdel-Rahman Omar 70
Abu ‘Ali al-Juzjani (d. ca. 964 CE) 200
Ackah, C. A. 130
acquiescence 137 , 266–268
Adinkra symbols, symbolism 104 , 134–135
aesthetics 8 , 24–27 , 122–141 , 273
of silence 190–191
and self-creation 239–242
everyday 123–126 , 133 , 135self-creation
ahimsa (non-violence) 101
Alston, William 43–44 , 48–49
Ammerman, Nancy 125–126
amor fati. see under fate
anima mundi (world soul) 307–308
Anscombe, G. E. M. 5n14
Ansell-Pearson, Keith 242n35
Antony the Great 202
apophantic discourse 284–288
apprehension 33 , 62n11 , 95 , 154–155
Aquinas. see Thomas Aquinas, Saint
archetypal psychology 297 , 307
Aristotle 5–6 , 146 , 152 , 154 , 285–288
asana (postures) 94 , 98 , 101–11 , 114 , 119–120
asceticism 69 , 144 , 222–223 , 237askēsis
askēsis (practice of self-discipline) 148 , 288–89spiritual exercises; practices
Assad, Talal 94
ataraxia (freedom from desire) 264 , 267
atheism, atheist 7–8 , 16 , 94 , 115 , 117 , 144 , 146 , 212 , 296
new 7 , 42 , 216
Augustine of Hippo, Saint 295 , 302–303
Aurelius, Marcus 144 , 288
Badiou, Alain 8
Baldwin, James 81
Barrow, John 314
Beiser, Frederick C. 227n63
Benveniste, Emile 94n1
Bergson, Henri 154 , 314
Berry, Wanda Warren 194n32
Bildungsroman 212 , 232 , 234 , 241
Blanchard, Terence 63
Bollas, Christopher 82
Borradori, Giovanna 203
Botton, Alain de 184n63
Bréhier, Emile 144
Brown, Norman O. 63 , 74 , 78 , 86n86
Buddha, the 7 , 64 , 67 , 223 , 235–239 , 241 , 294
Buddhism, Buddhist 2 , 60 , 64 , 72 , 77 , 115–116 , 119 , 215–221 , 204 , 237 , 239 , 185 , 301 , 304 , 309 , 325
neo, Western 215–219 , 223 , 226 , 238–239 , 244 , 295
Zen 42 , 77n60 , 204
Butler, Judith 190–193 , 198
Cage, John 190
Came, Daniel 234
Camus, Albert 179 , 247n161
capitalism 8 , 216n9 , 239 , 295
Caputo, John 195–196
Catches, Pete 167 , 169 , 171
cave, story of 294 , 302–303
Chardin, Tielhard de 314 , 323
Chérif, Mustapha 190–191
Chopra, Deepak 301
Christianity, Christian 2 , 95 , 127 , 133 , 140 , 143–149 , 157 , 168 , 189 , 201 , 204 , 215–217 , 219–226 , 235–238 , 243 , 254 , 258 , 266 , 294 , 299 , 304 , 309 , 313 , 322
Christ, Jesus 7 , 40 , 68–69 , 134 , 139 , 155 , 165 , 195n34 , 202 , 206 , 232 , 241 , 269 , 300–301
clown, sacred 166
Coltrane, Alice 63
Coltrane, John 63
consolation 159 , 254 , 268–269
contemplation, contemplative 95 , 97 , 108–109 , 144 , 150–156 , 159 , 172 , 218 , 251–254 , 257 , 259–268
conversion 1–36 , 68 , 147 , 257
cosmology 77 , 128 , 140 , 150 , 158
Cottingham, John 4n9 , 38–39 , 182n61 , 212 , 226 , 243 , 273 , 276–278
Csordas, Thomas 123
daemonology 150
dance 86 , 94 , 107 , 124 , 126 , 138 , 239 , 245 , 295
Darwin, Charles 313 , 220n26
natural selection and 314 , 319
Dauenhauer, Bernard 191
Davis, Walter A. 74
Dawkins, Richard 216 , 238n107 , 316 , 320
death 16 , 29–30 , 53–55 , 59–61 , 63–65 , 70 , 73–78 , 80–81 , 101 , 130–132 , 135–138 , 172 , 193–194 , 202 , 217 , 256 , 294 , 298n9 , 300 , 309 , 314
fear of 217 , 253 , 326n49
Deleuze, Gilles 201
Dennett, Daniel 216
Derrida, Jacques 95–96 , 190–207
Descartes, Rene 108 , 280–282
and Cartesianism 217 , 228 , 280 , 283 , 298
Desikachar, T.K.V. 98–106 , 109–111 , 115 , 117–118 , 137 , 145
destiny 71 , 128 , 241 , 305
nkrabea as 131fate
determinism 212 , 230 , 242 , 247
Deussen, Paul 219
Devi, Indra 100
devotion, devotions 51 , 67 , 73 , 75 , 80 , 98 , 101–102 , 105 , 109–116 , 129 , 256
Dewey, John 124 , 184n63
dhyana see under meditation
dhikr 198–200spiritual exercises, practices
Diotima 153
Divine, the 15 , 25–27 , 30 , 49–52 , 63–79 , 83–85 , 98–99 , 103–105 , 140 , 144–154 , 158–163 , 179 , 182n61 , 184 , 245 , 294 , 313–314 , 333Isvara
Dodds, Eric 144 , 146–147 , 149
dogma, dogmatism 63–64 , 78–79 , 190 , 206 , 250–270
Draper, Paul 9n15
Du Bois, W. E. 83n81
dualism 148–149
Duras, Margarite 86
Dyson, Freeman 315
Eagleton, Terry 8–9
Eban, Alexander 54
Edwards, Jonathan 21 , 25 , 26
emotions 21–25 , 28 , 34 , 43 , 63–66 , 71 , 84–86 , 99 , 211 , 217 , 261 , 264–268 , 296 , 324–326
enchantment 298 , 307 , 310
enlightenment 16 , 69–72 , 77 , 97–120 , 144 , 21 , 218 , 223 , 237 , 294 , 302
Enlightenment the 211 , 256samadhi
entropy 315
Ernst, Carl 200
eros, eroticism 153 , 211 , 213sexuality
eternity, eternal 68–71 , 73–74 , 117 , 178 , 186 , 200 , 260 , 296 , 302 , 195 , 245–246 , 300 , 309
eudaimonia (human flourishing) 5–6happiness
Evans, Jules 1n2
evil 69 , 74–77 , 82–84 , 128–129 , 131–132 , 137 , 141 , 148 , 169 , 182 , 237 , 243 , 267 , 301
excarnation 222–229 , 234
executive function 320 , 326
faith 5 , 16 , 26n20 , 33 , 35 , 61 , 63 , 67 , 74 , 77 , 85 , 108 , 117 , 137 , 144–146 , 149–151 , 171 , 183 , 190 , 192 , 194n32 , 196–205 , 220 , 238 , 244 , 257 , 267
fana’ (annihilation) 200–201union
fanatic, fanaticism 66–67 , 223 , 267
fate 30 , 257 , 265
love of (amor fati) 214–247
Ferry, Luc 238
Feuerstein, Georg 101 , 113n36
Fischer, Martin 53n44 , 54
Fools Crow, Frank (d. ca. 1890–1989 CE) 165–173 , 177–182
forest bathing 65
free man’s worship see worship; Russell, Bertrand
Frege, Gottlob 255
Fromm, Erich 81
Fuller, Robert 2
Gabriel, Archangel 196
Gaita, Raimond 30n28
Gellman, Jerome 44n15
generosity 296 , 310 , 325
Gnosticism, Gnostics, gnosis 143 , 147–152
Goldie, Pete 22n12
Grandfather (Maada) 128
Greene, David 79n65
Gruen, Arno 82
guru 100–101 , 114
Hadot, Pierre 1 , 5n9 , 151 , 215 , 218 , 247 , 279 , 281n30 , 290
Haldane, John 273–278 , 283 , 291
hallucination, hallucinatory 46 , 48 , 54 , 78
peyote and 69
psychedelic(s) and 7
hanbleceya see vision quest
happiness 6 , 16 , 229
Harris, Sam 41–42 , 216–226 , 238 , 244–245
healing 145 , 165–187
health 36 , 102–103 , 110 , 217 , 232–233 , 236 , 322
heart 39 , 60n9 , 61 , 69 , 191 , 197–199 , 201–202 , 206
Hegel, G.W.F. 61 , 192 , 245 , 256 , 282
Heidegger, Martin 82 , 261n50 , 281
Hendrix, Jimi 63
Heraclitus 59 , 307–308
Hesychasm (mystical tradition of prayer) 155contemplation
heyoka see clown, sacred
Hick, John 185n64 , 45n23
Higher Power 2 , 16 , 98–99
Hillman, James 62n9 , 294–310
Hinduism, Hindu 43 , 60 , 98 , 102 , 106–107 , 204 , 219 , 304
Hitchens, Christopher 216
Hobbes, Thomas 313
hollow bone 165–187
hospitality 203 , 205
human condition 147–149 , 276–277 , 284 , 294
humanism 224 , 257–258
Hume, David 212
Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah (d. 1309) 198
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint 68–70 , 78–79 , 108
Ihde, Don 190
iktomi see trickster
imagination 27 , 38–56 , 73 , 257 , 260 , 298 , 307–308 , 310
iman 197–198faith
incarnation 70 , 107 , 226–231 , 244
Indian, India 62 , 94 , 97–99 , 101–103 , 105–107 , 110 , 114–115 , 119–120 , 144 , 198n56 , 200
Indigenous spiritualities 2 , 140 , 183
Lakota 165–187
Native American 72 , 169
West African 122–141
infinite self/selves 192–195 , 202–203 , 261under self
infinite, the 39 , 41 , 105 , 178 , 189 , 192 , 196 , 198 , 220 , 206 , 212 , 262 , 264–265 , 312 , 314 , 333
infinity 193 , 195 , 200–201 , 252 , 261–263 , 333
inipi see sweat lodge
Irigaray, Luce 296
Islam 2 , 93 , 127 , 139–140 , 143 , 189–190 , 195–196 , 201 , 203–204Sufism
Islamism, Islamist 2 , 70 , 190
Isvara (God, Lord, the Divine) 94 , 97–98 , 102 , 104 , 106 , 109–116
Iyengar, B. K. S. 97–98 , 100 , 103–105 , 109 , 111
Light on Yoga 100 , 102 , 111
James, William 18–24
and parapsychology 186n65
jazz 81 , 86
jihad 196
John, Saint of the Cross 302
Johnston, Mark 5 , 7
Jois, Pattabi K. 98–100 , 102–103 , 105 , 109 , 111 , 118
joy 15 , 63 , 73 , 83–84 , 136 , 224 , 245–246 , 260 , 266 , 302 , 309 , 324
as puer 309
Jung, Carl 80 , 297–310
justice 69 , 84–85 , 146 , 191 , 264 , 325 , 328
justified belief 44
karma 64 , 77 , 118
Keats, John 305–306
Keeley, Louise Carroll 194n32
Kierkegaard, Søren 81 , 189–206 , 256 , 269
kinaesthetic feeling 27–30 , 35
Kind, Amy 45–49
Krishnamacharya 98–100 , 103–105 , 109 , 118
Krishnamurti, Jiddu 16
Kurzweil, Ray 316
Lama, Dalai 303–304
Lame Deer, Archie Fire 166 , 169 , 171
Lame Deer, John Fire 166 , 169 , 170n23 , 172 , 182
Leiter, Brian 218n18 , 220n26 , 230n76 , 242n135
Levinas, Emmanuel 202
listening 84 , 206 , 232
love 5 , 20 , 25 , 42 , 59 , 64–65 , 69 , 72 , 78 , 83 , 85 , 94 , 140 , 153 , 169 , 191 , 193 , 199 , 206 , 217 , 226 , 236 , 239 , 246 , 252 , 256 , 260 , 264–268 , 300 , 303–307 , 324–325 , 329
divine, God’s 61 , 74–75 , 268–268
earthly 267
erotic 75n55 , 83 , 193 , 201 , 213 , 296
of God 146 , 199 , 261 , 263
self 69 , 193eros, selfishness
Loyola, Ignatiu see Ignatius of Loyola, Saint
Lucan 144–145
Mails, Thomas 164 , 180–181
Marcella 156–161Porphyry
Marin, Louis 193
Marks, Laura, U. 200
martyr, martyrdom 74–75 , 84
Marx, Harpo 191
Marx, Karl 8 , 295
materialism 8 , 117 , 180 , 310
spiritual 7
materiality 284 , 287 , 289–290
May, Todd 240
McGhee, Michael 273
meaningfulness, meaning in life 16 , 165 , 171–186
medicine man 166–167 , 170n23
meditation 9 , 41–42 , 54 , 185 , 189 , 216 , 221 , 226 , 238 , 305 , 325
dhyana 94–95 , 97 , 101 , 105–106 , 109–112 , 120
Meissner, M. M. 68–69 , 79
melancholia, melancholy 24n14 , 32 , 305 , 309
mesospiritual age 324–329
Metz, Thaddeus 165 , 173–179
Mill, John Stuart 16
mindfulness 295 , 325–326
Miner, Maureen 6
mitakuye oyasin (all my relations) 180
Mitchell, Edgar 15–16
Mitchell-Yellin, Benjamin 53–55
monasticism 140 , 203 , 223
monotheism 158 , 216
Moore, G.E. 266n77
Moore, Thomas 304n22
Mount Improbable 31–321 , 324 , 328–330 , 332–333
Muhammad 139 , 196–199 , 206Islam
mysterium tremendum et fascinans (terrifying and fascinating mystery) 167numinous
mystic, mysticism 2 , 43n15–43n17 , 66–68 , 95–96 , 143 , 155 , 252n10 , 257 , 266–268
myth 85 , 297–298 , 304
Nag Hammadi library 148
Nagel, Thomas 165 , 173–186
naming ceremony 135
narcissism, narcissist 66 , 68–70 , 85n83
narrative 4 , 224 , 234 , 238 , 280–281 , 287
naturalism 177 , 186 , 220 , 223 , 225 , 230 , 238 , 313 , 333
Nehamas, Alexander 234
neighbor, as God 193 , 201–202 , 204–206 , 240n118
nkrabea see destiny
Neoplatonism 146–151 , 157–158 , 161
neospiritual threshold 329–330
Neumann, John von 231
New Age 295 , 301 , 304 , 309
Newman, John, Henry 26n20
Newton, Isaac 313
Nichols, Ryan 9n25
Nietzsche, Friedrich 61 , 74 , 86 , 214–247 , 281 , 296 , 309–310
Nimoy, Leonard 64
nirvana 41 , 115–116
niyama (devotions and observations) 101–102 , 105 , 110–111
nkrabea see under destiny
non-attachment 97 , 108–109 , 111 , 113 , 117–120 , 294
non-dogmatic 98
Nouwen, Henri 203
ntoro (paternal lineage) 132
numinous, the 42 , 53 , 59 , 62–63 , 65 , 72 , 80
Nussbaum, Martha 5n14 , 6n17 , 236n96
nyamedua (God’s tree) 134
objective standpoint, stance 178–176 , 180 , 182
Oṁ 97–98 , 109
Omega Point 213 , 312 , 314 , 333
omnispiritual age 332–333
onyamedua (human dependence on God) 134
Otto, Rudolf 62n11 , 140 , 211n1
paganism, pagan 95–96 , 106 , 146–150 , 152 , 157–158 , 211 , 222 , 226
pain 64 , 72–73 , 78 , 81 , 84 , 131 , 148 , 237 , 256 , 262 , 304 , 308
paleospiritual threshold 321–324
paradox 192 , 206
performative 218 , 220nn26 , 228–230 , 241–242 , 246
paranormal 165 , 170–171 , 176–187
paraskeuē (preparation for hardship) 228
Parmenides 145
passion 61 , 78 , 80 , 83 , 85 , 132 , 189 , 191–195 , 198 , 242 , 258 , 264–265 , 294 , 298
Patañjali (ca. 300 CE) 97–120Yoga Sutras
pathology, pathological 75n55 , 68–69 , 71 , 80 , 239
Paul, Saint 299–302 , 325
peak experience, performance 120 , 145 , 295 , 302–304
pejuta wicasa see medicine man
Pentecostalism 2
perceptual field 23–28 , 31 , 33
perfection 67 , 97 , 101 , 105 , 109 , 177–178 , 245–246 , 266 , 329
Perky effect 47
personal demeanor 277–278 , 284 , 291
pessismism 147–149 , 161 , 236
phenomenology, phenomenological 19–36 , 44–48 , 167 , 293 , 317
phronesis (practical reason/wisdom) 154
Picard, Max 191 , 194
piety 67 , 72 , 75 , 79 , 157 , 159 , 160–161
Pike, Nelson 40n6
pistis see faith
placebo effect 185
Plato 143 , 146 , 153–154 , 156–157 , 222 , 232 , 313 , 235 , 262n59 , 285Neoplatonic; cave story
Plotinus 143–161
pneuma (natural and spiritual power) 299 , 300 , 312–313
poetry 64 , 83 , 85 , 298 , 304
poiēsis (creation) 154
polytheism 145 , 297 , 307–308
Porphyry 143–161
practical stance 28 , 30 , 34
prajna (insight) 104 , 111
prakriti (material world) 99
prana (universal force) 104 , 181 , 222
pranayama (breathing techniques and breath control) 94 , 101 , 103 , 105 , 110–111 , 114 , 120
pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) 101 , 110
praxis (action) 63 , 154–155 , 278n15
prayer 40 , 77 , 105 , 110 , 134–136 , 155 , 159 , 184 , 203
prison 254 , 261–262 , 268
Proclus 143 , 156
Proverb 128
psyche/psyche 62 , 71 , 77 , 297–304 , 307–308
psychoanalysis 61 , 281n28
psychology 61–62 , 68 , 127 , 185 , 270 , 297 , 299–301 , 304 , 307
positive 6archetypal psychology
psychotherapy 298–299 , 308–309
puer see joy
purification 59 , 72–73 , 84 , 94 , 103 , 105 , 170 , 198 , 241 , 285
Purusa, Purusha (true Self) 97–120
Qur’an 196–197 , 200 , 206
Qutb, Sayed 70–71
Rabinow, Paul 240
Rasool, Azad 198–200
Ratcliffe, Matthew 29 , 31–33 , 36
rebirth see reincarnation
reflection 189 , 192–193 , 201 , 273
Reginster, Bernard 245–246
reincarnation 60 , 137
repetition 109 , 195 , 200 , 288
retreat 79 , 95 , 189–206
revelation 145 , 147–151 , 160
reverence 68 , 71–72 , 75 , 128 , 130 , 269 , 295 , 308
Rice, Julian 166n8 , 168
robot 312
and superhuman 312
and superhomo 322–233 , 330–332
Romanticism 211n1 , 220n26 , 227
Roof, Wade Clark 3
Rorty, Richard 240–241
Roszak, Theodore 216n9
Rúmí, Jalálu’ddín (d. 1273) 204–205
Russell, Bertrand 212 , 250–270
Sacks, Oliver 54
sacred, the 35–36 , 61 , 62 , 74–76 , 78 , 83 , 94 , 95 , 117 , 127 , 134 , 140 , 145 , 160 , 164–187 , 225 , 293 , 295 , 298 , 304n22 , 305 , 307 , 308 , 310 , 315–316 , 333clown, sacred
sadism, sadist 60 , 67 , 70 , 72 , 74–75 , 78 , 83–84
Saito, Yuriko 124–125
salvation 68 , 74 , 77 , 81 , 95 , 112 , 156–161 , 202 , 239
samadhi 15 , 94 , 97–120enlightenment and non-attachment
samsara (cycle of confusion and pain) 64 , 120
Sandberg, Anders 332
Sankha philosophy 98
sannyasin (renunciate) 118
Sanskrit 15 , 99n7 , 107
Santayana, George 66–67
Satchidananda, Swami 109
Schlegel, Friedrich 226
Schleiermacher, Friedrich 211
Schopenhauer, Arthur 16 , 73n50 , 220n26 , 235 , 265n74 , 281
Scripture, scripture 106 , 196–199
Scruton, Roger 24–26
secular, non-religious spirituality 1–9 , 14–17 , 38–56 , 80–84 , 93–120 , 123 , 126–127 , 143–161 , 165 , 179 , 183–187 , 190 , 214–247 , 275 , 291 , 326 , 328spiritual but not religious
self
care, care of 110 , 161 , 214–247
consciousness 146 , 299 , 306 , 328
control (organization and regulation) 312–333
creationism 241–247
knowledge 78 , 83 , 148 , 193
loss of 41 , 52–53 , 244 , 287 , 323 , 328
love 69 , 193
overcoming 212–213 , 228–246 , 293–310
realization 97–120samadhi; enlightenment
representation 319–320
transcendence 50 , 218 , 221 , 225 , 229 , 323 , 328Purusaunder love, transcendence
selflessness 67–72 , 140 , 216–218non-attachment
selfishness, selfish 66 , 84 , 212 , 214–218 , 232–247
spiritual 212 , 214–218 , 232–247
Seligman, Martin E.P. 6n17
Seneca 243
sensory world 16 , 18–36
sexuality 59 , 64–65 , 72–73 , 75 , 80 , 86n86 , 226 , 283eros, eroticism
Shah Waliullah (d. 1762) 196–198
Shankara 222
Sheldrake, Philip 140
shinrinyoku see forest bathing
Siddiqui, Mona 203
silence 95 , 153 , 155 , 189–207 , 211 , 286
Silesius, Angelus 269
Simonowitz, David 200
Sioux tribe 95 , 129 , 166nunder Indigenous spiritualities, Lakota
Sirhindi, Ahmad (d. 1624) 200–201
Sivananda 100 , 109
Socrates 145 , 235 , 241 , 288
solitude 202–203 , 218 , 233
Solomon, Robert 28n22 , 183n63 , 273
Sontag, Susan 190–191
sophia (wisdom) 148 , 150 , 301
Sophocles 145
sorrow 63–64 , 83n81 , 256 , 260
soul-making 298 , 305
Spencer, Herbert 313
Spinoza, Benedict 252n11 , 261 , 262n61
spiritual but not religious 7 , 80 , 97 , 183 , 293secular, non-religious spirituality
spiritual exercise(s), practice(s) 1–2 , 7 , 19 , 35 , 54 , 68 , 79 , 95 , 140 , 159 , 170 , 194–195 , 197 , 217–219 , 221 , 223 , 225–226 , 231 , 238 , 240–241 , 243 , 246 , 279 , 285Pierre Hadot; Ignatius of Loyola
spirit possession 130
Stein, Ruth 74
Still, Judith 206
Stoicism 212 , 312 , 315 , 332
Strauss, David 234
subjectivation 283
subjective stance/standpoint 95 , 174–175 , 178
substantivist 212 , 273–279 , 283–284 , 290–291
suffering 39 , 71 , 81–83 , 193 , 217 , 225 , 229 , 233 , 237 , 268 , 293–294 , 297 , 299 , 302 , 304–309
Sufism, Sufi 2 , 93n3 , 95 , 189–206
Naqshbandi order of 196–200
suicide 71 , 110 , 130–131 , 196 , 211 , 261
Sun Dance 95 , 167 , 170–171
superspiritual threshold 330–332
Swatmarama, Swami 102
sweat lodge 95 , 170
Syncletica, Mother Amma 202
Tachikawa Ryu 70
Tartaglia, James 176n42
Taylor, Charles 4–8 , 212 , 215–216 , 221 , 223–229 , 238–240 , 244–246
telepresence 55–56
Tertullian 256 , 312–313
theology 8 , 77 , 93 , 104 , 143–147 , 150 , 158–159 , 281 , 167–168 , 281
theōria see contemplation, contemplative
thermodynamics 313 , 315
theurgy 143 , 147 , 150 , 157
Thomas Aquinas, Saint 33n33 , 51 , 126
Thomism 250
Thoreau, Henry 214 , 218 , 233
Tipler, Frank 314
Tolle, Eckhart 15–16
Tolstoy, Leo 16–22 , 28–29 , 36 , 179
transcendence 4–6 , 66 , 72 , 74–75 , 78 , 80 , 83 , 123 , 194 , 213 , 217 , 222 , 224–225 , 228 , 230 , 244 , 298–299 , 302 , 304
transcendentalism 62 , 227
transformation 18 , 21 , 23 , 26 , 35 , 38 , 54–56 , 61 , 77 , 213 , 218 , 221 , 273–291
transhumanism 315
transnationalism, transnational 123
trauma 304–305 , 75n55
trickster 168
true Self 97 , 99 , 103 , 105 , 107–108 , 115–117 , 119Purusa
Trungpa, Chogyam 7
truth-searching 253–255
tunkashila see Grandfather
union
with God 40n6 , 68 , 94–95 , 99 , 104 , 109 , 148 , 152 , 154–156 , 225
with self 99 , 104
with the universe 94–95 , 99 , 254 , 260 , 262–266mystic, mysticism
universals 146 , 153 , 254 , 258 , 266
unreal 16 , 20 , 29 , 31–32 , 55 , 95 , 149
Upanishads 98 , 144 , 222
vairagyam (practice of non-attachment) 97 , 116–119non-attachment
Vedanta 2 , 219 , 222 , 294
Vedas 98
veridicality, veridical 38 , 45–46 , 51–56 , 71
violence 63 , 66–67 , 72–74 , 78 , 85 , 106 , 130ahimsa
Virgil, Virgilian 144
virtual reality, VR 53–55
virtue ethics 5n14 , 6 , 236 , 275
vision quest 95 , 170–171
visions 40 , 51 , 130 , 133 , 144 , 171 , 182spirit possession
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 211
Waaijman, Kees 61 , 139
Wagner, Richard, Wagnerian 227 , 235
wakan (sacred) 95 , 164–187
Wakan-Tanka (Highest and most Holy one) 95 , 164–187
Walden, Patricia 112
Wallace, Alfred, Russel 313
Weil, Simone 39
West, the, Western 1–2 , 8 , 45 , 60 , 68 , 94 , 97–120 , 122 , 126–127 , 132 , 139–140 , 167 , 215–218 , 221 , 224–225 , 235 , 238–239 , 279 , 283 , 285 , 295–296 , 299 , 303 , 312
West Africa, Western Africa 94 , 122–141
White Buffalo Calf Woman 183
wicasa wakan (holy man) 95 , 164–187
Williams, Bernard 52
Williams, Rowan 202
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 72 , 93n3 , 212 , 250–270
Wolf, Susan 176
Word of God 189 , 195–197 , 199
worship 77 , 93 , 103–107 , 122–123 , 129 , 145–146 , 159 , 266–269
Wounded Knee 179
Xenophanes 145
yama (ethics or abstentions) 101–102 , 110–111
Yee, Rodney 102
Yoga 95 , 97–120 , 226 , 296
Alliance 100 , 104
Ashtanga 99–100 , 109–110 , 117
Classical 107
Hatha 100–103
Kriya 109–112 , 117
Raja 101–102
School (Orthodox Indian Philosophy) 98–99
and The Yoga Sutras 97–102
Western 98 , 100–102 , 109 , 111
Yosana, Akiko 64
yuwipi (healing ceremony) 170
Zeus 153
Zimmer, Heinrich 133
Žižek, Slavoj 8 , 215n5–216n6 , 238–239 , 295 , 308
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The Philosophy of Spirituality

Analytic, Continental and Multicultural Approaches to a New Field of Philosophy

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