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    Finding the Mystical in Ordinary Life
    Finding the Mystical in Ordinary Life
    Finding the Mystical in Ordinary Life
    Audiobook55 minutes

    Finding the Mystical in Ordinary Life

    Written by James Carse

    Narrated by Michael Toms

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    This is for everyone who has ever felt that mystical awareness and inner contentment are impossible given their current life situations. Mystical traditions, on the contrary, widely agree that ordinary experience is where we find the key to deep involvement in life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Dimensions Foundation
    Release dateOct 17, 1994
    ISBN9780781308939
    Finding the Mystical in Ordinary Life
    Author

    James Carse

    James P. Carse is Professor Emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University. A winner of the University’s Great Teacher Award, he is author of The Religious Case Against Belief (2008) and Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience (1994). Carse lives in New York City and Massachusetts.

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