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Tables of Contents for The Silent Cry
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Introduction
1
8
Part I: What Is Mysticism?
We are all Mystics
9
18
Mysticism of Childhood
Are Mystics Completely Different?
Mystical Sensibility
``I Am What I Do'': C. S. Lewis
Ecstasy
27
18
Stepping Out and Immersing Oneself
Commotion and Unity: Martin Buber
Rabi'a and Sufi Mysticism
Mansur al-Hallaj: Agnus Dei Mohammedanus
We Have Not Been Created for Small Things
Definitions, Methods, Delimitations
45
10
From the Hermeneutic of Suspicion to a Hermeneutic of Hunger
Pluralism of Methods and Contextuality
The Distinction between Genuine and False Mysticism
Finding Another Language
55
22
The Cloud of Unknowing and the Cloud of Forgetting
Sunder Warumbe: Without a Why or Wherefore
A Language Without Dominance
The Via Negativa, the Way of Negation
The Paradox
Silence
The Journey
77
20
Ladders to Heaven and Stations on Earth
Purification, Illumination, Union: The Three Ways of Classic Mysticism
Traces of a Different Journey: Thomas Muntzer
Being Amazed, Letting Go, Resisting: Outline of a Mystical Journey for Today
Part II: Places of Mystical Experience
Nature
97
16
Places and Placelessness
A Morning Hymn: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Monotheism, Pantheism, Panentheism
Sharing and Healing: A Different Relation to the Earth
Eroticism
113
20
Heavenly and Earthly Love and Their Inseparability
The Song of Songs
Marguerite Porete and the Enrapturing Far-Near One
The Bitterness of Ecstasy: D. H. Lawrence and Ingeborg Bachmann
Sacred Power
Suffering
133
24
Job: The Satanic and the Mystical Wager
Between Dolorousness and Suffering
``Even When It Is Night'': John of the Cross
``Better in Agony than in Numbness'': Twentieth-Century Mysticism of Suffering
Community
157
18
The Hidden Sacred Sparks: Hasidim
Community, the Sinai of the Future: An Examination of Buber's Relation to Mysticism
Without Rules and Poor, Persecuted, and Free: The Beguines
The Society of Friends and the Inner Light
Joy
175
16
The Mystical Relation to Time: Thich Nhat Hanch
Publicans, Jesters, and Other Fools: The Abolition of Divisions
Dancing and Leaping: The Body Language of Joy
The Relation of Mysticism and Aesthetics
Part III: Mysticism Is Resistance
As if we Lived in a Liberated World
191
18
The Prison We Have Fallen Asleep in: Globalization and Individualization
Out of the Home into Homelessness
Acting and Dreaming: Becoming Martha and Mary
The Fruits of Apartheid
Ego and Ego-Lessness
209
24
The Ego: The Best Prison Guard
``Go Where You Are Nothing!''
Asceticism: For and Against
Tolstoy's Conversion from the Ego to God
Freedom from the ``Ring of Cold'': Dag Hammarskjold
Success and Failure
Possession and Possessionlessness
233
26
Having or Being
Naked and Following the Naked Savior: Francis of Assisi
John Woolman and the Society of Slave Owners
Voluntary Poverty: Dorothy Day
Middle Roads and Crazy Freedoms
Violence and Nonviolence
259
20
The Unity of All Living Beings
The Duty of Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau
Mahatma Gandhi and Ahimsa
``Our Weapon Is to Have None'': Martin Luther King Jr.
Between Hopes and Defeats
A Mysticism of Liberation
279
20
The Death and Life of Severino: Joao Cabral
Kneeling Down and Learning to Walk Upright: The Theology of Liberation
``When You Dance with Death, You Must Dance Well'': Pedro Casaldaliga
The Voice of the Mute: Dom Helder Camara
Learning to Pray and a Different Mysticism
Afterword: A Conversation
299
4
Notes
303
14
Bibliography
317
6
Index
323