The Ecstatic Journey: The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience

323 pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rowing Toward God; Ecstatic Visions: Fairy Tales; Drunks and Bums and Saints; The Revelation on Machu Picchu; Light and Heat: Burning with the Fire of Love; Coming Down, Going Off; The Sweetness of the Pain of Love; Holy Craziness, Crazy Holiness; Chaos and Disintegration; The Hidden Mystics; Angels and Visitations; The Second Journey; Appendix A: Christian Meditation; Appendix B: The Dark Side and the Way Out; Notes; Bibliography; Suggested Reading; Index.