The mystic, zero, or void experience—the ecstatic disappearance of self along with everything else—is considered by those who have had it to be the most bea
"As modern man has lost faith in a world from which God seems excluded, many have turned with hope to the writings of the mystics—the men and women who drowne
Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions—St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and R�
This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniqu