Death, Dying, and Mysticism: The Ecstasy of the End

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Lady Jacopa and Francis: Mysticism and the Management of Francis of Assisi’s Deathbed Story....Pages 15-34
Mystical Dying in Contemporary Autobiographies....Pages 35-47
Traces of Resurrection: The Pattern of Simone Weil’s Mysticism....Pages 49-64
Thoreau’s Religious Response to Death....Pages 65-85
You Create Your Own Reality: The Fallacy of Death in the Seth Material Paradigm....Pages 87-101
Symbolic Death of the Subject in the Structure of Jacques Lacan....Pages 103-115
Anomalous Experiences and the Bereavement Process....Pages 117-131
Heaven Is for Real and America’s Fascination with Near-Death Experiences....Pages 133-151
Mystical Knowledge and Near-Death Experience....Pages 153-175
The Experience of Death as Non-Death....Pages 177-188
Death Visions of the Goddess Kali: The Bengali Shakta Corpse Ritual at the Burning Ground....Pages 189-201
Samādhi as True Death in the Yogasūtra....Pages 203-218
At Our End Is the Beginning: Death as the Liminal Real in the Art of Frida Kahlo....Pages 219-233
Modern Requiem Compositions and Musical Knowledge of Death and Afterlife....Pages 235-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-281