Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations

by Paul Marshall

Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199279438
• ISBN13: 9780199279432
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"