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Resource Area Instructor Search Text All Resource Areas Arts and Design Educational Studies Environmental Sciences Human Studies Multi-Disciplinary Museum Studies Visvader, JohnAll Instructors Anderson, John Andrews, Nancy Beal, Elmer Bennett, Michael Berquist, Pete Borden, Rich Brechlin, Earl Capers, Colin Carpenter, JoAnne Carpenter, William Cass, Don Cline, Ken Colbert, Dru Cooper, John Cox, Gray Cox, Judith Creevey, Lucy Demeo, Anna DeWolfe, George Drennan, Matthew Feldman, Dave Hathaway, William Havsall, Lynn Heinz, Christine Hersey, Sue Hess, Helen Hill, Ken Little-Siebold, Todd Longsworth, Gordon Mancinelli, Isabel McKown, Jamie McMullen, Ernie McNally, Jay Morse, Suzanne Olday, Fred Pena, Karla Petersen, Chris Planchart, Antonio Rajakaruna, Nishanta (Nishi) Ressel, Stephen Sanborn, Kelley Sellers, Lucy Bell Stabinsky, Doreen Staff, Stover, Candice Swann, Scott Tai, Bonnie Taylor, Davis Todd, Sean Turok, Katharine Vande Berg, Camille Visvader, John Waldron, Karen

What is the nature of mystical experience? Does it offer a direct experience of God or a deeper reality? Does mysticism provide a common factor that reveals the same set of truths at the core of all religions? Is the mystical experience the same in different cultural contexts? This course will examine these and other questions by comparing some of the mystical texts of three Eastern religions (Taoism, Buddhism and Hinduism) and three Western religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam). Introductory. *HS*