Mysticism/Psych Course 2: Suggested Readings

The suggested readings for the Modern European Mysticism and Psychological Thought I introduced in the previous post are listed below. Clicking on the title will lead to you to the book’s page at Amazon.com. I also included links to the books at Worldcat.org, where you can find which local library theye are available at

Lesson 1: Psychology and Religion

• Wolfgang Geigerich, The Soul’s Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1998 [Worldcat]
• James Hillman, Insearch: Psychology and Religion. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1995 [Worldcat]
• Jess Byron Hollenback, Mysticism: Experience, Response, and Empowerment. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996 [Worldcat]
• Jonathan Garb, ‘Paths of Power’, The Journal of Religion, Vol. 78 (1978), No. 4: 593–601 [Review of Hollenback’s book]
• Jeffrey J. Kripal, Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010 [Worldcat]
• William B. Parsons, Freud and Augustine in Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism and the Culture of Modern Spirituality. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2013 [Worldcat]

Lessons 2-3: Kabbalistic Psychology

• [Primary Source] Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto, Path of the Just [Mesillat Yesharim], translated by M. M. Kaplan. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1948 [Worldcat]
• Jonathan Garb, Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011 [Worldcat]
• Elliot R. Wolfson, A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination. New York: Zone Books, 2011 [Worldcat]
• [Primary Source] Abraham Isaac Kook, The Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems. New York: Paulist Press, 1978 [Worldcat]

Lessons 4-6: Christian Mystical Psychology

• [Primary Source] St. Theophan the Recluse, Turning the Heart to God, translated by Ken Kaisch and Ioana Zhiltsov. Ben Lomond, CA: Conciliar Press, 2001 [WorldCat]
• [Primary Source] Archimandrite Zacharias, The Hidden Man of the Heart (I Peter 3:4): The Cultivation of the Heart in Orthodox Christian Anthropology. Waymart, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing, 2008 [WorldCat]
• Ted Campbell, The Religion of the Heart. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2000 [WorldCat]
• [Primary Source] Miguel De Molinos, The Spiritual Guide, edited and translated by Robert P. Baird. New York: Paulist Press, 2010 [WorldCat]
• [Primary Source] Jacob Boehme, Forty Questions of the Soul, translated by J. Sparrow. London: John M. Watkins, 1911 [WorldCat]
• Tanya M. Luhrmann, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God. New York: Random House, 2012 [WorldCat]