Embraces a wide range of aspects of Indian mysticism, displaying the structural patterns in mystical experiences and the mystic paths in different traditions and schools, while there are also significant contributions to comparative mysticism, Eastern and Western. First published in 1989.

Karel Werner School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham.

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 Ved?nta 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