Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Traveling to other worlds : lectures on transpersonal expression in literature and the arts / Travelling to other worlds Travelling to other worlds : Lectures on transpersonal expression in literature and the arts Bruce Ross. - viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction -- A Poetry of Mysticism: Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, and Rainer Maria Rilke -- Words Turn into Stone: Haruki Murakami's after the quake -- The Triptych between Heaven and Hell: The Case of Bosch, Beckmann, and Bacon -- Matsuo Basho, Suthorn Pho, and Contemporary World Travel Haibun -- Altered States: The Artistic Quest in The Stone Flower and La Sylphide -- Ra 'anan Levy's Metaphysical Space -- The Kindness o f Strangers: Epiphany and Social Communion in Paul Theroux's Travel Writing -- The Songlines: Dreaming the Ancestors and Sustaining the World in Aboriginal Art -- Big Mind: The Nature o f Consciousness as Internal Space in Transpersonal Experience -- Traveling to other Worlds: Visitation to the Heavens as Transpersonal Experience in Rock Art -- Haiku Mainstream: The Path o f Traditional Haiku in America -- Spaciousness as a Key Element in Haiku -- Note on the Lectures -- Notes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Expression in art
Expression in literature

NX165 / .R65 2012

700.1