{"product_id":"reality-and-mystical-experience-f-samuel-brainard-9780271030210","title":"Reality and Mystical Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eResponding to our modern disillusionment with any claims to absolute truth regarding morality or reality, this book offers a conceptual approach for discussing absolutes without denying either the relevance of divergent religious and philosophical teachings or the evidence supporting postmodern and poststructuralist critiques. Case studies of mysticism within Advaita-Vedānta Hinduism, Mādhyamika Buddhism, and Nicene Christianity demonstrate the value of this approach and offer many fresh insights into the metaphysical presuppositions of these religions as well as into the nature and value of mystical experience. Like Douglas Hofstadter's \u003ci\u003eGōdel, Escher, Bach\u003c\/i\u003e, this book finds ultimate reality to be rationally graspable only as an eternal fugue of pattern and paradox. Yet it does not so much counter other philosophical views as provide a conceptual tool for understanding and classifying incommensurable views.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e F. Samuel Brainard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271030216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271030210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"F. Samuel Brainard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443328004351,"sku":"9780271030210","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d3de5066-eaf3-4529-871f-56d2bd6cfc7d.jpg?v=1777204770","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reality-and-mystical-experience-f-samuel-brainard-9780271030210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}