Table of Contents

1 Mysticism as Doctrine and Experience 2 Mysticism and Indian Spirituality 3 The Longhaired Sage of Veda 10, 136; A Shaman, a Mystic or a Yogi? 4 Mysticism in the and in ?ankara’s Vedānta 5 Birth of Extraordinary Persons: the Buddha’s Case 6 Consciousness Mysticism in the Discourses of The Buddha 7 The Stages of Christian Mysticism and Buddhist Purification: Interior Castle of St Teresa of Ávila and the Path of Purification of Buddhaghosa 8 Living Between the Worlds: Bhakti Poetry and the Carmelite Mystics 9 Yoga Philosophy and Jung 10 Three Contemporary Indian Mystics: ?nandamay?, Krishnabai and Rajneesh 11 Yoga, Mysticism and a Model of Comparative Religion