The Innate Capacity
This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system - a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to deconstruction in general and to the "constructivist" school of mysticism in particular, which holds that all mysticism is the product of a cultural and linguistic process. In The Innate Capacity, Forman and his colleagues put forward a hypothesis about the formative causes of these "pure consciousness" experiences. All of the contributors agree that mysticism is the result of an innate human capacity, rather than a learned, socially conditioned and constructive process.
245 pages, 6 editions
English edition · First published 1998 by Oxford University Press · ISBN 9780195116977
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5 editions
English
- The Innate Capacity · Oxford University Press · 1998 · ISBN 9780195116977 This page
- The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy · Oxford University Press · 2023 · ISBN 9780585270463
- The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy · Oxford University Press · 2023 · ISBN 9780197739617
- The Innate Capacity: Mysticism, Psychology, and Philosophy · Oxford University Press · 2023 · ISBN 9781280470349
- The innate capacity · Oxford University Press · 2023 · ISBN 9780195353686
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