Roots of Western Mysticism Resources
			Contact Webmaster: bruce.janz@ucf.edu B. Janz's Web Pages GO TO PAGE B. Janz Home Page Aesthetics and Visual Culture African Philosophy African Places Critical Theory Continental Philosophy Resources Culture and Ethnicity in Philosophy Humanities Jacob Boehme Resource Page Metaphysics Resource Page Mysticism Links Philosophy and Contemporary Culture Philosophy in the World's Religions Philosophy of Science Links Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment Place Research The Reasoning Page Useful Philosophy Links Who's Who in the History of Mysticism --------------------- Search Engines --------------------------- UCF LINKS University of Central Florida UCF Library System UCF Philosophy Department -------------------- PERSONAL PAGES Biographical Info Miscellaneous Links Courses Taught Search all of B. Janz's Web Pages This page is designed to collect resources for the philosophical study of mysticism. Of course, it is difficult to determine what exactly is philosophical in this area, but I will do my best. The resources on this page do not pretend to be a comprehensive list of what is on the Internet. Instead, I have collected some of the more useful sites for teaching and research. Many of these pages are quite comprehensive, and will lead to many other resources. Feel free to contact me for further additions. "Western" in this case includes Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mysticism, as well as non-religious mysticism from sources in modern Europea and North America. I have not included links to the extensive resources on non-Western traditions of mysticism. This is mostly because the course that this page is a resource for is limited to Western mysticism. It also reflects my own lack of experience with non-Western mysticism. In no way does it suggest that Western mysticism is somehow better, more worthy of study, or anything like that. This page is a resource for my Roots of Western Mysticism course, at the University of Central Florida. latest update: 21 August 2011
Secondary Sources and Resource Pages			General Western Mysticism Resources *ChristianMystics.com. *Gene Thursby's mysticism page - currently the best scholarly site on mysticism. Hermetic Fellowship Website. Inner Explorations. Institute of Cistercian Studies. Internet Theology Resources: Monastic Studies. Internet Theology Resources: Spirituality - both primary and secondary sources. James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience. Kingsgarden.org -- a host centre that houses a number of groups interested in religious, mystical, and theosophical things. Saint-Martin texts are here, as well as others. Library of Hermetic Philosophy (J. R. Ritman, Amsterdam). Mystical Experience Registry. Mysticism - Deb Platt. Site linked from Wayback Machine (internet archive site). Mysticism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Mystics and Mysticism. One Little Angel.com - quotations from mystical texts and figures. Recent Books on Mysticism. *Resources for the Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience - good resources. Lots on non-Western mysticism, and also out of body experiences, near death experiences, etc. - Offline Routes of Mystical Traditions: Antiquity to St. Teresa of Avila Spirituality, Monasticism, and Mysticism -- Wabash Centre. Studies in Spirituality - Titus Brandsma Institute. Who's Who in the History of Mysticism - Bruce Janz & Gene Thursby. Yahoo Mysticism Page.
Bibliographies			Academic Approaches to Mysticism Bibliography. Bibliographies for Theology. _OFFLINE General Works on Spirituality. Spirituality in the Early Church. Medieval Spirituality. Meister Eckhart and Medieval Mysticism. Reformation and Post-Reformation Spirituality. Contemporary Spirituality. British Mediaeval Mystics: A Bibliography. Mysticism: A Select Illustrative Bibliography. Philosophy and Religious Experience.
Primary Text Sources (see also in the various sections below for more specific text archives)			Alchemy Virtual Library. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. The Franciscan Archive. Guide to Online Resources in Medieval Spirituality. Internet Mediaeval Sourcebook. Internet Sacred Text Archives. The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies. Myriobiblios - Online Library of the Church of Greece. Mystical Writings By Or Ascribed To Saints. Pass the Word Services - includes texts on & by Shakers, Fenelon and Madame Guyon, William Law, and Jane Leade. Project Wittenberg - Lutheran texts online. St. Pachomium Library - many Orthodox texts, including mystical ones. TEAMS Middle English Texts.
			The Academic Study of Western Mysticism
What is Mysticism? Definitions and Descriptions			Defining Mysticism. Definitions of Mysticism. DeConick, April D. ed. "Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism: A Collage of Working Definitions". How Many Types of Religious Experience Are There? (course notes). Mystic Experience and Two Modes of Consciousness -- adapted by Gene Thursby from the work of Arthur Deikman. Mystical Experience Registry. Mysticism (Powerpoint presentation). What is Religious Experience (course notes). What is the Cognitive or Evidential Value of Mystical Experience? (course notes).
Contextual vs. Perennial Philosophy			Experience and Interpretation in Mysticism (course notes). Forman, Robert K. C. Paramaartha and modern constructivists on mysticism: Epistemological monomorphism versus duomorphism. Interpretive Debate Bibliography - B. Janz. Mahoney, Timothy. Contextualism, Decontextualism, and Perennialism: Suggestions for Expanding the Common Ground of the World's Mystical Traditions. Mysticism and the Perennial Philosophy - Gene Thursby.
Mysticism and the Human Sciences			Anthropology of Mythology - Jungian page. Smith, Huston. The Psychology of Religious Experience. Stahlman, Sandra. The Relationship Between Schizophrenia & Mysticism: A Bibliographic Essay.
Science and Mysticism			D'Adamo, Art. Science Without Bounds: A Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Mysticism.
Literature and Mysticism			Elliott, Sandra Stahlman. The Mysticism of Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek".
			The Roots of Western Mysticism
Greek Mysticism			Parmenides, On Nature.
Neo Platonism			Philo Research Page. Plotinus, Enneads. Also here.
Gnosticism			Academic Info Gnosticism. Gnosis Archive. A Gnostic Reading List. Gnostic Web. Gnosticism. Gnosticism Links (hundreds). Gospel of Thomas Page.
Esoterica: Alchemy, Hermeticism			The online resources for esoterica are immense. I will only list a few entries here. Note: I do not include paranormal phenomena under the heading "esoterica", unlike some other sites. Alchemy Virtual Library. Esoterica: The Journal of Esoteric Studies - full online content. Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). Museum Hermeticum. Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica. Western Esoterica Online Library. Western Esoteric Texts.
			Christian Mysticism in History This section contains key texts for understanding various times, people, and movements in the history of mysticism. For more texts on specific individuals, check my Who's Who in the History of Mysticism. See below for Jewish and Islamic mysticism.
Ancient & Early Christian Mysticism (up to 400 CE)			Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellenies. The Fathers of the Church -- primary texts. Very extensive. Guide to Early Church Documents. Willoughby, "The Mysticism of Philo" in Pagan Regeneration.
Early Mediaeval Mysticism (354 - 1000 CE)			General Benedictines. De Miribalis Mundi: The Mediaeval Worldview and Ars Magica - Jeremiah Genest. Guide to Online Resources in Medieval Spirituality. Internet Mediaeval Sourcebook - primary sources. Internet Resources on Christian Asceticism. Augustine Augustine - James O'Donnell. Notes on Augustine's Confessions. Boethius Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy Boethius, Theological Tractates Boethius, Trinity Is One God Not Three Gods Dionysius the Areopagite Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchy, The Mystical Theology. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. Rolt, C.E. Dionysius the Areopagite: On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology. Scouteris, Constantine. Platonic Elements in Pseudo-Dionysius Anti-Manichaean Ontology. The Cappadocians: Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great Gregory of Nyssa Home Page -- David Solomon. Gregory of Nyssa, Selected Letters. Eriugena, John Scotus Eriugena: East and West. John Scotus Eriugena. John Scotus Eriugena (ErraticImpact). John Scottus Eriugena: Life and Works. Notes on John Scotus Eriugena.
Later Mediaeval Mysticism (1000-1500 CE)			General & Uncategorized Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index. Internet Mediaeval Sourcebook - primary sources. Internet Theology Resources: Monastic Studies. Matrix: Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities. Medieval German Women Writers. Medieval Women. Medieval Women. The Order of St. Benedict. Beatrice of Nazareth Beatrice of Nazareth, "On Seven Ways of Holy Love". Beguines and Beghards Council of Vienne, 1311-1312 - Section 28: Condemnation of Beguines. Knuth, Elizabeth. The Beguines. Bernard of Clairveax Bernard of Clairveax, On Loving God. Bernard of Clairveax, Some Letters of Bernard, Abbot of Clairveax. Bonaventure Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind to God. Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind Into God - interlinear Latin and English. Cloud of Unknowing author anon. The Cloud of Unknowing (Underhill translation). anon. The Cloud of Unknowing (original text). The Cloud of Unknowing - introduction. Vuletic, Mark. The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali and The Cloud of Unknowing: A Preliminary Step in Assessing the Ontological Accuracy of the Mystical Experience. Cusa, Nicholas Institut fur Cusanus-Forschung. Jasper Hopkins' Page - all Cusa texts translated in pdf form. Nicholas of Cusa site. Nicholas Cusanus Society. Eckhart, Meister Beyer de Ryke, Benoît. Maitre Eckhart: une mystique du détachement. Drazenovich, George. The Metaphysical and Social Context of Meister Eckhart. Eckhart, Sermons - 7 sermons. Eckhart, Meister (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Eckhart - major German site. Eckhart Society. Inge, W. R. Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages. Maitre Eckhart - a French Eckhart site. Meister Eckhart links. Meister Eckhart and Mediaeval Mysticism - bibliography. The Meister Eckhart Site. English Mysticism (mediaeval) British Mediaeval Mystics: A Bibliography. The Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises. Luminarium: An Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485). The Website of Unknowing: Celebrating the Lives and Writings of the Mediaeval English Mystics. Francis of Assisi & Various Franciscans Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi. Franciscan Authors, 13th-18th century. The Franciscan Archive. Hildegaard of Bingen Hildegaard of Bingen Resources. Hilton, Walter Introduction to Walter Hilton and his Scale of Perfection. Hilton, Walter, The Scale of Perfection -- in Middle English. Hilton, Walter, The Scale of Perfection -- in Middle English. Hilton, Walter, The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection -- slightly modernized English. Hilton, Walter, The Song of Angels. Hilton, Walter, Treatise Written to a Devout Man. Walter Hilton links. Julian of Norwich *Julian of Norwich -- a site containing primary documents, essays, an extensive bibliography, and many resources. Julian of Norwich, The Shewings of Julian of Norwich -- in Middle English, with introduction. Julian of Norwich. Kempe, Margorie Kempe, Margorie, The Book of Margorie Kempe -- in Middle English, with extensive introduction. Kempe, Margorie, Treatise of Contemplation. Mapping Margorie Kempe. Margorie Kempe. Margorie Kempe links. Mechthild of Magdeburg Mechthild of Magdeburg links. Porete, Marguerite Marguerite Porete Links. Mirror of Simple Souls, more excerpts. Rolle, Richard Richard Rolle Page -- David Solomon. Rolle, Richard. Selections from The Fire of Love and The Amending of Life. Rolle, Richard. The Fire of Love and the Amending of Life. Ruysbroeck, Jan van Jan van Ruusbroec, "The Spiritual Espousals". Ruysbroeck, The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, The Sparkling Stone, The Book of Supreme Truth. Also here. Ruysbroeck, The Sparkling Stone. Silesius, Angelus Silesius, selections from The Cherubic Wanderer. Suso, Henry Inge, W. R. Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages. Suso, A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom. Tauler, Johann Inge, W. R. Light, Life and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages. Tauler, The Inner Way. Johannes Tauler links. Winkworth, Susanna, History and Life of the Reverend Dr. John Tauler with Twenty Five of his Sermons. Victorines Richard of St. Victor links.
Early Modern Mysticism (1500-1700 CE)			General Resources on Religion, Society, etc. Catholic Reformation - texts and readings. Protestant Reformation - texts and readings. English Mysticism Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. "William Law and the Mystics" Ch. XII of Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Vol. 9: "From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift", with bibliography. Traherne, Thomas. Centuries of Meditation - and another copy. Thomas Traherne links. French Mysticism Fénelon, François and Jeanne Marie Guyon, Spiritual Progress, or, Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life. Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God. Guyon, Jeanne Marie (Madame). Autobiography. Guyon, Jeanne Marie (Madame). Various Works. German Mysticism Jacob Boehme Resources - Bruce Janz. Jakob Lorber Books Weigel, Valentin. "Astrology Theologized" (partial version here). Spanish Mysticism: Carmelites, etc. Carmelite Literature on the Web -- Theresa of Avila, John of the Cross, etc. OFFLINE CarmelNet - An Information Database for Carmelites. Doohan, Leonard, The Contemporary Challenge of John of the Cross. OFFLINE John of the Cross, Ascent of Mt. Carmel. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom of Christ. Molinos, Michael de. The Spiritual Guide - quietist document. Mondello, Geoffrey. The Metaphysics of Mysticism: A Commentary on the Mystical Philosophy of St. John of the Cross. Theresa of Avila, Autobiography. Theresa of Avila, Life of Theresa of Avila. Theresa of Avila, Interior Castle. Theresa of Avila, Way of Perfection.
Modern Mysticism (1700-)			General Resources The Evelyn Underhill Association. Evelyn Underhill: Selections from her Writings - these selections are very extensive, with full texts of several books. Hollywood, Amy. Bataille and Mysticism: A "Dazzling Dissolution" Diacritics 26.2, Summer 1996: 74-87. Nature Mysticism - Quotes, Bibliography, etc. Rudolph Steiner Archives. Steiner, Rudolph. Knowledge of the Higher World and its Attainment. Think Unity, Christian Mystic (John Kuykendall) Buber, Martin Bertman, Martin. Buber: Mysticism Without Loss of Identity. Buber, Martin. Concerning Jacob Boehme. Wiener Rundschau V, 12 (June 15, 1901), pp. 251-253. James, William James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience. Also here and here. William James Studies Kant, Emmanuel Palmquist, Steve. Kant's Critique of Mysticism: The Critical Dreams (Part One); The Critical Mysticism (Part Two). Ross, Kelley. Intuition and Mysticism in Kantian Philosophy. Merton, Thomas Thomas Merton Center and International Thomas Merton Society. Thomas Merton Foundation. Thomas Merton Resources. Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet. Thomas Merton Resources - Gene Thursby.
Eastern Christian / Orthodox Mysticism			Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism - many documents linked. Myriobiblios - Online Library of the Church of Greece. Orthodox Mysticism. Orthodox Mysticism: Teachings of the Desert Fathers. St. Pachomium Library - many Orthodox texts, including mystical ones. Vladimir Lossky, "Theology and Mysticism in the Tradition of the Eastern Church".
			Jewish and Islamic Mysticism
Jewish Mysticism (includes Hekhalot, Merkabah, Zoharic and Lurianic Kabbalah, and Chassidism)			Jewish Mysticism: General Blumenthal, David. Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism. Jewish Mystical Traditions - bibliography by Zos Imos. Jewish Mysticism - Eliezer Segal -- superb course resources. Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism. Jewish Traditions - text links, from Gene Thursby. Mysticism during the Talmudic Era -- study questions on Merkabah mysticism. Judaism Online - see, in particular, lectures from Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz Hekhalot & Merkavah Mysticism Blumenthal, David. Ascent of the Merkava. Hekhalot Mysticism Bibliography. Karr, Don. Notes on the Study of Merkabah Mysticism and Hekhalot Literature in English with an appendix on Jewish Magic. Merkabah Mysticism. Maimonides Blumenthal, David. Maimonides' Philosophic Mysticism. Blumenthal, David. Maimonides' Intellectualist Mysticism and the Superiority of the Prophecy of Moses. Blumenthal, David. Maimonides: Prayer, Worship, Mysticism. Kabbalah: Sites Hermetic Kabbalah - excellent set of resources. Hermetic Kabbalah - The Big Picture - a great chart, with clickable boxes, outlining major figures. Don Karr's Bibliographic Surveys. Links page. Karr, Don. "The Study of the Christian Cabala in English" - extensive and excellent resource. Index to Kabbalist Texts - primary texts, commentaries, and introductions. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts. Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism. Kabbalah Words of Wisdom. Kabbalistic WWW Pages. Qabala Links (over 700 of them). Kabbalah: Documents Blumenthal, David. Creating Zoharic Texts. Blumenthal, David. Commentary to Sefer Yetsira. Gellman, Jerome. Jewish Mysticism and Morality: Kabbalah and its Ontological Dualities.. Hornek, Daniel. Franz Kafka and Jewish Mysticism: Kabbalah. Low, Colin. A Depth of Beginning: Notes on Kabbalah - pdf format. Mathers, S. L. MacGregor. Kabbalah Denudata (The Kabbalah Unveiled).
Islamic Mysticism			Islamic Mysticism: Sufism -- notes. International Association of Sufism. Muslim or Islamic Traditions - text links, from Gene Thursby. Nicholson, Reynold J. "The Mystics of Islam" (1912). Sufi related resources on the internet. Sufism - Dr. Godlas. Extensive external links. Sufism - Sufis - Sufi Orders. Sufism and Islamic Mysticism.
			Comparative Mysticism
			Websites Center for Sacred Sciences - Mystical Core of Great Religions (perennialist account of mysticism) East-West Contemplative Dialogue. Mysticism in World Religions. Philosophy East and West - often has papers on comparative mysticism. Transcendent philosophy: an international journal for comparative philosophy and mysticism - online content. Comparative work mainly on Islamic and Western mysticism. Documents Swami Bhajanananda. An Epistemological Study of Mysticism in Christianity and Hinduism. In the Name of Peace: On Comparative Mysticism. Mahoney, Timothy. Contextualism, Decontextualism, and Perennialism: Suggestions for Expanding the Common Ground of the World's Mystical Traditions. Randrup, Axel and Tista Bagchi. "Correspondences Between Jewish Mysticism and Indian Philosophies. Some Significant Relations to Science." Suzuki, D. T. Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist. Vuletic, Mark. The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali and The Cloud of Unknowing: A Preliminary Step in Assessing the Ontological Accuracy of the Mystical Experience. Zelinski, Daniel. "Morality and Mysticism: the views of Dogen and Eckhart". Courses Comparative Mysticism (Rick Colby). Comparative Mysticism (Moore). Comparative Mysticism - Jorge Ferrer (PhD Seminar, good bibliography attached).
			Resources on Western Mysticism
Papers & Books on Mysticism			Boulton, Wayne. The Thoroughly Modern Mysticism of Matthew Fox. Code, Murray. Explanation and Natural Philosophy: Or, The Rationalization of Mysticism. Diekman, Arthur. "A Functional Approach to Mysticism". Deikman, Arthur. 'I' = Awareness. Donner, Neal. Mysticism and the Idea of Freedom: A Libertarian View. Ducey, Michael. Mystics in Society - MA Thesis, 1970. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Excerpt from Harvard Divinity School Address, 1838. Fales, Evan. Do Mystics See God?. Forman, Robert. What does Mysticism Have to Teach Us About Consciousness?. Frenken, Ralph. Childhood and Fantasies of Medieval Mystics. Goodey, Daniel J. Mysticism and Fatalism: A Critique of Steven Katz's Purely Equivocal Perspective. Ice, Jackson Lee. Was Schweitzer a Mystic After All?. Idel, Moshe. "Unio Mystica" as a Criterion: Some Observations on "Hegelian" Phenomenologies of Mysticism. Lossky, Vladimir. Theology and Mysticism in the Tradition of the Eastern Church. Manker-Seale, Susan. Mystical Atheism I and II. Mihailescu, Calin. Corpus Epochalis: Mysticism, Body, and History. Miller, Sara. What Can We Learn from the Mystics?. Mills, Joy. The Mystic Vision and Human Transformation. Morrison, Alan. The Evangelical Attraction to Mysticism - against mysticism, from an Evangelical point of view. Nieli, Russ. "Mysticism, Morality and the Wittgenstein Problem.". Popken, Ian. Political Science as Mysticism. Sharpe, A. B. Mysticism: Its True Nature and Value. Simmons, Ernest. Mystical Consciousness in a Process Perspective. Stace, W. T. Mysticism and Philosophy. Stace, Characteristics of Extrovertive Mystical States. Steindl-Rast, David. The Mystical Core of Organized Religion. Steiner, Rudolph. Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age. Teasdale, Wayne. Mysticism as the Crossing of Ultimate Boundaries: A Theological Reflection. Underhill, Evelyn, Mysticism, 12th Edition. Vuletic, Mark. Stace and the Question of Objectivity in Mysticism.
Related Courses			Monks, Mystics, and Meditation: An Encounter with God - Rom Maczka. Mysticism - Jordan Paper. Mysticism - Andrew O. Fort. Roots of Western Mysticism - Bruce Janz. Spirituality and Mysticism - David Solomon.
Related Journals			Esoterica: The Journal of Esoteric Studies - full online content. Journal of Consciousness Studies -- much broader than just mysticism, but it does address issues related to mysticism sometimes. Full online content. Mystics Quarterly - no online content. TASTE: The Archive of Scientists' Transcendent Experiences - on-line content. Transcendent philosophy: an international journal for comparative philosophy and mysticism - online content. Comparative work mainly on Islamic and Western mysticism.
Email Lists, Blogs			Merton-L.
Institutes. Programmes & Activities			Scientific and Medical Network. Conference: The Search for Unity: Mind and Hearth in Science and Mysticism (April 5-7, 2002). EmergentSpirit.org (Atlanta). MA in the Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience (Dept. of Religion, University of Kent). Titus Brandsma Institute: Institute for the Scientific Study of Spirituality.
Contemp. Mystics, Mystical & Esoteric Writing			Alonzo, Sean. Burrows, Elizabeth M.. Hermitage of the Woods (Brother Aidan). Mysticism and Meditation Blog (Kees Voorhoeve) Philosophy of Rational Mysticism (Hopkin Cairns). Rauhala, Jack. Find Your God. Two Mystics. Stimson, William. The Wild Things of God: Spiritual Awakening and Modern Life. Woodward, Dave "The World of Spirit: Essays in Mysticism and Healing".
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