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Throughout his career, Obeyesekere has combined psychoanalysis and anthropology to illuminate the relationship between personal symbolism and religious experience. In this book, he begins with Buddha's visionary trances wherein, over the course of four hours, he witnesses hundreds of thousands of his past births and eons of world evolution, renewal, and disappearance. He then connects this fracturing of empirical and visionary time to the realm of space, considering the experience of a female Christian penitent, who stares devotedly at a tiny crucifix only to see the space around it expand to mirror Christ's suffering. Obeyesekere follows the unconscious motivations underlying rapture, the fantastical consumption of Christ's body and blood, and body mutilation and levitation, bridging medieval Catholicism and the movements of early modern thought as reflected in William Blake's artistic visions and poetic dreams. He develops the term 'dream-ego' through a discussion of visionary journeys, Carl Jung's and Sigmund Freud's scientific dreaming, and the cosmic and erotic dream-visions of New Age virtuosos, and he defines the parameters of a visionary mode of knowledge that provides a more elastic understanding of truth. A career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.

Religious studies --- Visions --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries

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In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last ten months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles; on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the Virgin Mary. She confessed these strange occurrences to an Augustinian friar known as Jean le Graveur, who recorded them all in vivid detail. Was Ermine a saint in the making, an impostor, an incipient witch, or a madwoman? Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski ponders answers to these questions in the historical and theological context of this troubled woman's experiences. With empathy and acuity, Blumenfeld-Kosinski examines Ermine's life in fourteenth-century Reims, her relationship with her confessor, her ascetic and devotional practices, and her reported encounters with heavenly and hellish beings. Supplemented by translated excerpts from Jean's account, The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims brings to life an episode that helped precipitate one of the major clerical controversies of late medieval Europe, revealing surprising truths about the era's conceptions of piety and possession.

Visionaries --- Women mystics --- Mysticism --- Visionnaires --- Femmes mystiques --- Mysticisme --- History --- Histoire --- Ermine, --- Visions --- Early works to 1800 --- Mysticism - France - History - To 1500 --- Visionaries - France --- Visions - France - Early works to 1800 --- Women mystics - France --- Ermine de Reims

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Private revelations --- Visions --- 235.3 BIRGITTA, Sancta --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- Revelations, Modern --- Revelations, Private --- Mysticism --- Revelation --- Hagiografie--BIRGITTA, Sancta

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Heaven --- Hell --- Visions --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries --- Future life --- Heaven. --- Hell. --- Visions. --- Endless punishment --- Eternal punishment --- Everlasting punishment --- Hades --- Sheol --- Future punishment --- Damned

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La Salette --- Visionaries --- Mary, - Blessed Virgin, Saint --- Saint-Ferréol de Lamerlière, Constance. --- Bruillard, Philibert de, - 1765-1860. --- Ginoulhiac, Jacques-Marie-Anchille, - 1806-1875.