Partition of India 205
Hindustanis, India 28
Hinton, Walter, mystic 175
holistic education 46
holistic health 106
homeopathy 43
Hospice Movement founder, Cicely
Saunders 211
Hubbard,
Dianetics: The Modern
Science of Mental
Health
43–4
Hubbard, L. Ron (Church of
Scientology) 43–4
human suffering, roots of 32
humanism as religion 25
humanity as responsible for
species 25
Hunt, Holman, ‘Light of the World’,
painting 113
Husayn Ali, Mirza 41–2
Huxley, Aldous
The Perennial Philosophy
172, 240,
245–6
on effect of mescaline 131
Huxley, Julian 3
I-Ching
(
Book of Changes
) 33
illness as trigger 79–80
‘Immanence’ doctrine 244–5
implicit religion 252
Independence of India, Gandhi fought
for 205
India 4
research on spiritual experiences 234
Indra’s Net 4
Indus River, India 27
Inge, Dean W. R., on mysticism 16
initiatory experiences 99
interfaith 23–4, 75
International Society for Krishna
Consciousness (ISKCON) 49
interpretation
of mystical experience 240–55
of religious experiences 240–55
of spiritual experiences 240–55
intuitive insights 239
irreligious experiences 143–5
Islam 36–8
message of Qur’an 19
‘submission’ 37
Island of Shikodo, Japan, sacred
place 71
Israel, twelve tribes of 34
Index
280
Jainism 30–1
no killing of sentient beings 106
Jalaluddin Rumi, Islamic
mystic 177–80
James, William 18, 108, 231
The Varieties of Religious
Experience
11, 100, 243
on
fruits for life
220
on renunciation 68–9
Japan 4
Jerusalem 71
Jerusalem Peacemakers 229
Jesus Christ 5, 18
George Fox, relationship with 42
life, death and resurrection 19
nothing written by him 20
Sermon on the Mount 13
Jewish Kabbalists 172
Jewish praying 60
John the Baptist 35
Jones, Jim, drug addict, The People’s
Temple 142
Judaism 33
law giving in 19
Julian of Norwich, Dame, Christian
mystic 174–7
Jung, Carl Gustav, Swiss
psychiatrist 196, 200–2
Memories, Dreams Reflections
132,
200
on ‘active imagination’ 128
difference with Freud 200
Near Death Experience 201
Ka’aba, holiest shrine in Islam 71
Kabbalists 16
kami
, Shinto 21
karma, freedom from 31
Katz, Steven,
Language, Epistemology
and Mysticism
247
King Mindon, and Dharma 223
King, Martin Luther 125, 189
Kitab-i-Aqdas 42
Koresh, David, leader of Branch
Davidians 142
Krishna 5, 28–9
Krishna Caitanya 48–9
Krishnamurti, Jiddhu, Theosophist 45,
193–4
Ks, five, Sikh religion 39
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth 196, 210–12
On Death and Dying
154, 210
Kuthodaw Pagoda, world’s largest
book 222–3
Lahore, Punjab 38
Langar, community kitchen 39
language, limitations of 21–2
Laoze (Lao-Tsu), ‘Old Master’ 32
Laski, Marghanita,
Ecstasy in
Secular and Spiritual
Experiences
16
Latin chants 110
Leadbeater, C. W., Theosophist 45
Lent fasts 73
Lewis, C. S.
Narnia
150–1
Surprised by Joy
102
Liberation Theology, Latin America 25
liberation,
moksha
in Jainism 31
life after death 146
life changes after Near Death
Experiences 17
life-enhancing experience 6
light, experiences of 113–18
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu 48
‘Lords’ Prayer’ 35, 61
Lourdes 71, 111–12
love 118–19
Lutyens, Mary, on Krishnamurti 194
Maclean, Dorothy, Findhorn 70
Madinah (Medina) 37
Mahabharata
29, 54
maha-mantra
Great Chant for
Deliverance 49
Maharishi Mahesh Yoga 18, 48
Mahatma Gandhi 18, 180, 205
assassination by Hindu fanatic 205
inspiring leader 196
Mahavira, founder of Jainism 30–1
Mahayama school of Buddhism 32
Main, Dom John, Christian
meditation 64
Index
281
Makkah (Mecca)
Muhammad born 37
pilgrimage to 71
(qibla) 60
Mandela, Nelson, President of
South Africa 196, 214, 229
mantra
(sacred word(s)) 48, 193
martyrdom of Christians 42
Marx, Karl 25
Marxism as religion 25
McCarthy, John, despair of,
in kidnap of 82–3
McGrath, Alister,
The Dawkins
Delusion
253
Mecca
see
Makkah
Mediators 19
medical cures at Lourdes 112
meditation 12, 23, 48, 63–6, 171, 193–4
in a mountain cave 37
Medjugorge,
Bosnia-Herzegovina 111–12
megalomania 142
Meister Eckhart, mystic 172–5
Messengers 19
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh 53
metta
(loving-kindness) 217
Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi 137
military intelligence, Germany 207
military junta in Myanmar
(Burma) 215
mind and body interconnectedness 106
mind and brain, relation between 239
Mind Life Institute 214
mind over matter 43
miracles 107
Missionaries of Charity 206
missionary work of St Paul 199
Montefiore, Hugh, Bishop of
Birmingham 101
Mooney, Bel,
Devout Sceptics
154–5
Moore, Thomas, poet, ‘The Scent of the
Roses’ 165
moral order 9, 18
Mormons 44
Moses 18
founder of Jewish religion 34
and Muhammad 38
Mosque, prayer location for
Muslims 60
Mother Meera, avatar 49, 67–8
Mother Teresa 206–7
inspirational leader 196
Mount Carmel Centre, Waco 142
Muhammad 18
instruction to read or recite 20
last of prophets of Bible 36
Muhammad Ibn ‘Arabi, mystic 172
Müller Orphan Houses 223
Müller, George, convertion to
Christianity 223
murder 142
music 6, 88
Muslims
daily prayers 60
esteem of Moses (Musa) 35
experience of interfaith 75
Mysteries of the Greeks 172
mystical experience 11, 16, 171–220
within all religions 191–220
mystical traditions of world 195
mysticism 2, 16, 51, 242
without religion 193
National League for Democracy
(NLD) 215, 216
natural beauty 6
nature 86
presence of God in 88
nature of religion, enquiry into it 253
Nazis, resistance to 207
Near Death Experience (NDE) 15,
90–2, 146, 149, 155–62
research, pioneer Kübler-Ross 17, 210
scientific research 162–3
Nehru, Jawaharlal, announcement
of Gandhi’s death 205
Neoplatonic work 173
Neo-Platonism 198
neurotheology 17
New Age movements 23
Newberg, Andrew,
The Mystical
Mind
254
Nicholson, Ben, on painting and
religious experience 87
Index
282
Night of Qadr’ (Power or Glory) 37
Nirvana
31, 54, 148
Nobel Peace Prize 189
awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi 217
awarded to Dalai Lama 214
awarded to Mother Teresa 206
awarded to Nelson Mandela 215
Thich Nhat Hanh nominated
for 1967 125
Noble Eightfold Path 32
Noetic Training 59
numen (holy power) 136–8, 241
numinous, experiences 136–8
Nye, Rebecca 94
occult, interest in 23
Oglala Sioux tribe, North America 86
Olcott, Henry Steel 44–5
Om (‘aum’), mantra, Sanskrit for
God 194
oral traditions 21, 86
Order of the Star of the East 193
‘other power’ (
tariki
) 54
Otto, Rudolf
The Idea of the Holy
136–7
on religious experience 241
Out of the Body Experience (OBE) 17,
149, 154
Ox-Herding pictures 76
paganism 23
Paramahansa Yogananda, yogi 180–2
Paramatman Light 49, 67
paranormal experience 14–15
parapsychology 15
Parliament of the World’s Religions 24
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