The robust memoirs of an unusual twentieth-century seeker and student of G. I. Gurdjieff.

The development of early Islamic mysticism and metaphysics is presented through the life and work of theologian Abu Bakr al-Wasiti.

Explores the concept of the Limit (barzakh), which the great Sufi mystic Ibn al-'Arabi used to address the philosophical controversy regarding God's relationship with the world.

A searching study of Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival.

Reveals the sophisticated design of Rumī’s Mathnawī, showing that this seemingly unstructured work both describes and functions as spiritual training.

Cuts through traditional debates to argue that religious phenomena are cocreated by human cognition and a generative spiritual power.

Explores the human experience of mysticism and looks at it within the spiritual traditions around the world.

Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.

Provides an innovative theology based in mysticism, one that acknowledges the pain of spiritual repression and values religious pluralism.

Explores the concept of Spirit in the postmodern age.

Provides an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation of mystical experience by viewing unitive thinking as a line of cognitive development and mystical moments as creative inspirations on unitive ideas.

Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.

Explicates the cosmology of Ibn al-'Arabi, the greatest mystical thinker of Islamic civilization.

Demonstrates convincingly the extent to which James's psychological and philosophical perspectives also continue to be a rich resource for those specifically interested in the study of mysticism. A critically-sophisticated, yet gripping, immersion into the inner worlds of one of America's foremost thinkers.

A remarkable spiritual testimony, this complete transcription of Florence Nightingale's hitherto-unpublished diary (recorded during visits to Egypt and Greece in 1850) reveals the troubled period during which she finally realized that the answer to her call from God lay in service to humanity.

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

Discusses and translates important compositions by famous Nirguni poets--poets dedicated to the worship of a formless God.

Composed in 2 B. C., as "The I Ching revised and enlarged," The Elemental Changes is a divination manual providing a clear method for distinguishing alternative courses of action. Structured in 81 tetragrams ...

Explores the journey beyond union, beyond self and God, into the silent and still regions of the Unknown.

Evelyn Underhill was a pioneer in revitalizing interest in mysticism and in the spiritual life as lived by ordinary people. Here are some of her articles that demonstrate the variety and development of ...