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Three mystics walk into a tavern : a once and future meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in medieval Venice / James C. Harrington and Sidney G. Hall III.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 156 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780761865438
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BL625 .T474 2015
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Subject: In <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Le(c)đn, and Meister Eckhart- three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword; Introductory Comments-A Tavern?; Notes; 1 What This Book Is-And Is Not-About; Everyone Can Be a Mystic; Restless Hearts; Notes; 2 They Meet at Taverna degli Alighieri in Venice; 3 Mysticism; Trying to Define the Indefinable; Mysticism Back on Stage; One River, Many Wells; Historical Notes; Characteristics; Dangers of Mysticism; Notes; 4 The 13th and Early 14th Centuries as Backdrop; Christianity in Europe; The Mongols; Culture, Education, and Law; Political Events; 13th-Century Inventions; Concluding Comments; Notes; 5 Jalal ad-Din Rumi; Teachings; Major Works.

Order of Whirling DervishesLegacy; Notes; 6 Meister Eckhart; Influence; Works and Teachings; Modern Spirituality; Notes; 7 Moses de Le(c)đn; The Zohar; The Zohar and Kabbalah; Concluding Comments; Notes; 8 The Conversation Continues, about the Divine; Notes; 9 More Tea, Wine, and Conversation; Notes; 10 Still More Çay and Conversation; Notes; 11 Women and the Feminine; Notes; 12 As Dawn Approaches; Notes; 13 They Conclude-the Underground River and Expanding the Circle; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

In <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Le(c)đn, and Meister Eckhart- three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.

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