Mysticism Sacred and Profane
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1957
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Zaehner’s reply to The Doors of Perception, which argues that mystical experiences are not all of one kind, distinguishing nature mysticism, the isolation of the soul, and theistic union with God, and denies that drugs produce the last.
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R. C. Zaehner. Mysticism Sacred and Profane: An Inquiry into Some Varieties of Praeternatural Experience. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1957.
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