Name: Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People
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Author: Evelyn Underhill
ISBN: 9782357286726

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Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People

Type

Physical Book

Author

Evelyn Underhill

Publisher

Alicia Editions

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

142

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.8 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9782357286726

Synopsis "Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People "

Evelyn Underhill was one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century. For her, true mysticism is, first of all, active and practical, an organic life process in which the whole self is engaged, rather than simply an intellectual apprehension. Underhill's little book on the topic deserves to be read since it is still used in most courses that discuss mysticism and still attracts contemporary spiritual seekers. In this work, she explores meditation, spirituality, mindfulness, recollection, contemplation and mystical life.Begin with Evelyn Underhill a journey of peace today on the path to a better, more balanced life.LARGE PRINT EDITIONExcerpt: "Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention to new levels of the world. Thus he may become aware of the universe that the spiritual artist is always trying to disclose to the race. This amount of mystical perception---this 'ordinary contemplation', as the specialist call it, ---is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly alive. It is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime experiences of the mystical saints and philosophers than the ordinary enjoyment of music involves the special creative powers of the great musician."Contents: PREFACE CHAPTER I. WHAT IS MYSTICISM?CHAPTER II. THE WORLD OF REALITYCHAPTER III. THE PREPARATION OF THE MYSTIC CHAPTER IV. MEDITATION AND RECOLLECTIONCHAPTER V. SELF-ADJUSTMENTCHAPTER VI. LOVE AND WILLCHAPTER VII. THE FIRST FORM OF CONTEMPLATION CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND FORM OF CONTEMPLATIONCHAPTER IX. THE THIRD FORM OF CONTEMPLATION CHAPTER X. THE MYSTICAL LIFE

Evelyn Underhill

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Nació en Wolverhampton, Inglaterra, en 1875. Recibió una esmerada educación privada y asistió al King´s College para mujeres (Londres), donde estudió letras, historia, botánica y filosofía. Crecida en el agnosticismo, en 1907, durante una breve estancia en un convento franciscano, tiene lugar su conversión espiritual. A pesar de estar convencida de que la religión católica era la verdadera, diversas circunstancias impiden su adhesión a la Iglesia católica, y en 1921 optará finalmente por una pertenencia practicante al anglicanismo. En 1911, a raíz de la preparación y publicación de su obra fundamental La mística, conoce al barón Friedrich von Hügel, al que convertirá en su director espiritual; él influirá grandemente en su pensamiento y en su práctica religiosa. Repartió su actividad entre la escritura y la vida de devoción, asumiendo la dirección de retiros e impartiendo charlas y conferencias, dedicaciones que harán de ella unas de las maestras espirituales más importantes de su tiempo.

Autora de tres novelas y dos libros de poemas, destacan sus trabajos sobre mística y espiritualidad, que comprenden ediciones y comentarios de místicos y obras clásicas como Ruysbroeck, Walter Hilton, La Nube del no Saber o La Escala de Perfección. Entre sus numerosos libros cabe mencionar The Mystic Way: A Psychological Study in Christian Origins (1913), The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (1922), The Mystics of the Church (1925), Worship (1936), La práctica del misticismo (2015) y La mística (2ª edición en 2016), publicados en esta editorial.

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