Comments on: Taking the Purple Pill: On the Paradoxical Pedagogy of Mysticism

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:08:07 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: Jahanavi

Jahanavi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:26:29 +0000

Man, I followed that the dark truth link, and was completely in the story. Damn exciting. The latest post talks about a friend of him who’s gone missing . Somewhere on his way to Leh, India. And the guy is asking for help find it. Soundss like an online game . This looks interesting. M already hooked on.

Hey, btw, nice post you have there – keep rocking – ;)

By: TanyaK

TanyaK — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:43:45 +0000

Hmmm, that was interesting. Looks like somethings will always remain mystery.

I myself has been trying to solve the mystery of the legend that forces you to have “earn it before

having it”, for a wile now. Could not understand much though.

Let me know in case you get to understand the mystery of the Old Hound and the Legend

By the way, good writing style. I’d love to read more on similar topics

By: Liam Cooper (Associate Managing Editor)

Liam Cooper (Associate Managing Editor) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:06 +0000

[Hi Carl, please find below a response to your query from Jeff Kripal. Best, Liam] Thanks, Carl, I have assembled a sample list of reading materials here for your perusal. For more books and annotations on them, see my The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). Best, Jeff

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death & Sensuality (San Francisco: City Lights, 1986). Virginia Burrus and Catharine Keller, ed., Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of a Discipline (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006). Gary David Comstock and Susan E. Henking, eds., Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology (New York: Continuum, 1999). Bernard Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998). Grace M. Jantzen, Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995) Jeffrey J. Kripal, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

By: jelloflavoredmidget

jelloflavoredmidget — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:44:53 +0000

I’d like a red pill please. Also, was Jesus a mystic parallel to Ramakrishna? What I mean is, do their lives reflect each other’s as far as their relationships with their “Mothers” I’m referring to Jesus to Mary and Ramakrishna to Sikta (or Kali).

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By: The Pedagogy of Mysticism « The Website of Unknowing

The Pedagogy of Mysticism « The Website of Unknowing — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:11:20 +0000

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By: Carl McColman

Carl McColman — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:05:09 +0000

Thanks for a wonderful reflection on mysticism. I am neither an academic nor clergy, so in my work (I have a blog devoted to Christian mysticism and am currently writing a book on the topic for the general reader) I’m interested in what, for lack of a better term, could be called ‘mysticism on the street.’ In other words, how does this particular kind of religious discourse shape, and is in turn shaped by, the experience of contemplative practitioners, particularly in our day when such practice is increasingly not anchored in a monastic or even religious context.

A question for you: You reference “a standard collection of essays on the study of sexuality and Christian mysticism.” Could you please provide bibliographic details? I would love to check this out. Or is it your own, as yet unpublished, collection?

Bring on the red pill!

Carl McColman
The Website of Unknowingtt