What Is God?

by Needleman, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9781585428472
• ISBN10: 1585428477
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-30
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

In his most intimate and revealing work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, bringing an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power. In this new book, Jacob Needleman-whose voice and ideas have done so much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-intimately considers humanity's most vital question: What is God? With rich, vivid examples from his experiences in the classroom and other walks of life, Needleman draws us closer to the meaning andnature of this question-and shows how our present confusion about the purpose of religion and the concept of God reflects a widespread psychological starvation for a specific quality of thought and experience. In varied detail, the book describes this inner experience, and how almost all of us-atheists and believers alike-actually have been visited by it, but without understanding what it means and why its intentional cultivation is necessary for the fullness of our existence.

Table of Contents

My Father's God	p. 3
Who Am I?	p. 20
God and the Mind	p. 35
God and the Mind II	p. 49
Beyond the Hollow Mind: The Idea of God	p. 82
The Question Within the Question	p. 107
Return to the Miraculous	p. 120
What Is a Human Being?	p. 129
And What of God?	p. 138
The Critique of Pure Reason	p. 147
Echo from the Future	p. 158
The Cave of Absence	p. 171
The Atheist	p. 177
The Fundamentalist	p. 187
Tuesday	p. 203
God and the Emotions	p. 210
"God Sends the Wind, but Man Must Raise the Sail"	p. 231
Attention	p. 243
What Is God?	p. 254
Conclusion: What the Religions Call God	p. 270
Coda	p. 285
Notes	p. 287
Index	p. 293
About the Author	p. 307
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