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In his most intimate and revealing work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, bringing an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.
In this new book, Jacob Needleman-whose voice and ideas have done so much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-intimately considers humanity's most vital question: What is God?
With rich, vivid examples from his experiences in the classroom and other walks of life, Needleman draws us closer to the meaning andnature of this question-and shows how our present confusion about the purpose of religion and the concept of God reflects a widespread psychological starvation for a specific quality of thought and experience. In varied detail, the book describes this inner experience, and how almost all of us-atheists and believers alike-actually have been visited by it, but without understanding what it means and why its intentional cultivation is necessary for the fullness of our existence.
Ch. 1 My Father's God 3
Ch. 2 Who Am I? 16
Ch. 3 God and the Mind 28
Ch. 4 God and the Mind II 39
Ch. 5 Beyond the Hollow Mind: The Idea of God 65
Ch. 6 The Question Within the Question 85
Ch. 7 Return to the Miraculous 95
Ch. 8 What Is a Human Being? 102
Ch. 9 And What of God? 109
Ch. 10 The Critique of Pure Reason 116
Ch. 11 Echo from the Future 123
Ch. 12 The Cave of Absence 136
Ch. 13 The Atheist 141
Ch. 14 The Fundamentalist 149
Ch. 15 Tuesday 161
Ch. 16 God and the Emotions 167
Ch. 17 "God Sends the Wind, but Man Must Raise the Sail" 183
Ch. 18 Attention 193
Ch. 19 What Is God? 202
Ch. 20 Conclusion: What the Religions Call God 215
Coda 227
Notes 229
Index 233
About the Author 243
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In his most intimate and revealing work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, bringing an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.
In this new book, Jacob Needleman-whose voice and ideas have done so much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-intimately considers humanity's...