Notes

  1. . Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1961), p. 49.
  2. . NilsBjorn Kvastad, “Philosophical Problems of Mysticism,” International Philosophical Quarterly  13 (June 1973): 191–209.
  3. . Mircea Eliade, Yoga, Immortality and Freedom, trans. Willard R. Trask (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 4.
  4. . Swami Prabhavananda and Frederic Manchester, eds. and trans., The Upanishads (New York: Mentor Books, 1957), p. 120.
  5. . Claudio Naranjo and Robert E. Ornstein, On the Psychology of Meditation (New York: Viking Press, 1974), p. 161.
  6. . Ibid., p. 164.
  7. . Ibid., pp. 167–69.
  8. . Prabhavananda and Manchester, p. 120.
  9. . Underhill, p. 55.
  10. . Roy M.Pritchard, “Stabilized Images on the Retina,” Scientific American  204 (June 1961): 72–78; D.Lehmann, G. W.Beeler, and D. H.Fender, “EEG Responses during the Observation of Stabilized and Normal Retinal Images,” Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology  22 (1967): 136–42.
  11. . Charles M. Butter, Neuropsychology: The Study of Brain and Behavior (Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1968), p. 126.
  12. . Raymond Prince and Charles Savage, “Mystical States and the Concept of Regression,” in The Highest State of Consciousness, ed. John White (New York: Anchor Books, 1972), p. 127.
  13. . Louis Linn and Leo Schwarz, Psychiatry and Religion Experience (New York: Random House, 1958), p. 201.
  14. . Alexander Maven, “The Mystic Union: A Suggested Biological Interpretation,” in White, p. 430.
  15. . ArthurDeikman, “Implications of Experimentally Induced Contemplative Meditation,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases  142 (February 1966): 106–14.
  16. . Ibid., p. 108.
  17. . Arthur Deikman, “Deautomatization and the Mystic Experience,” in Altered States of Consciousness, ed. Charles Tart (New York: Anchor Books, 1969), p. 40.
  18. . Naranjo and Ornstein, p. 190.
  19. . Edward Conze, Buddhist Thought in India (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1970), p. 65.
  20. . Deikman (n. 15 above), p. 111.
  21. . Prabhavananda and Manchester, pp. 13, 117.
  22. . Deikman (n. 17 above), p. 41.
  23. . Frederick J. Streng, Emptiness (New York: Abingdon Press, 1967), p. 76.
  24. . Surendranath Dasgupta, Indian Idealism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 164.
  25. . Ibid., p. 163.
  26. . Naranjo and Ornstein, p. 221.
  27. . Butter, p. 127.