The Soul's Upward Yearning · Clues to Our Transcendent Nature From Experience and Reason (Happiness, Suffering, and Transcendence-Book 2) by Spitzer, Robert J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Numinous Experience

Introduction I. The Numinous Experience II. The First Pole: Mysterium Tremendum in the Numen III. The Second Pole: Fascination, Desire, Love, and Bliss in Our experience of the Numen IV. The Unity and Opposition of Both Poles in Our Experience of the Numen V. The Fullness of Christian Revelation VI. Is the Numen Really a Transcendent Other? VII. Conclusion

Chapter Two: The Sacred and the Cosmic Struggle

Introduction I. Mircea Eliade—Religion as Hierophany

A. Common Elements in Cross-Cultural Religious Expression B. Homo Religiosus C. The Anxiety of “Nonreligious Man”

II. Kant and Newman on the Divine Origin of Conscience

A. Kant and the Divine Origin of Conscience B. Newman and the Divine Origin of Conscience C. An Initial Conclusion about “the Soul”

III. Eliade, Tolkien, and Jung on the Myth of the Cosmic Struggle between Good and Evil IV. Conclusion

Chapter Three: Mind and the Transcendent

Introduction I. The Desire for Perfect Truth-Being II. Clues to Our Transcendence from the Question Why III. Lonergan’s Proof of God

IV. God Is an “Unrestricted Act of Thinking” V. The Presence of God as Source of the Notion of Completely Intelligible Reality

VI. Human Intelligence versus Animal Intelligence VII. Conclusion

Chapter Four: The Substance of Things Yearned For

Introduction I. The Desire for Perfect Love

II. The Desire for Perfect and Unconditional Justice or Goodness III. The Desire for Perfect and Unconditional Beauty IV. The Unity, Meaning, and Depth of Our Transcendental Desires

V. Our Transcendent Nature: A Review of the Evidence

Chapter Five: Clues to a Life Beyond

Introduction I. Definitions and Descriptions II. Important Studies

III. Three Kinds of Verifiable Evidence

A. Reported Veridical Data B. Visual Perception of the Blind during Clinical Death C. Meeting Deceased Persons in a Transphysical Domain

IV. Response to Physicalist Explanations V. Near-Death Experiences, Love, and Resurrection

Chapter Six: The Soul and Its Brain: Toward a Theory of Transphysical Self-Consciousness

Introduction I. Clues to Transphysical Consciousness

II. The Hard Problem of Self-Consciousness

III. Sensate Consciousness and Self-Consciousness

IV. Dualism, Trialism, and Hylomorphism

V. Comparisons and Contrasts VI. Conclusion: The Impact of Transphysical Self-Consciousness

Conclusion Appendix One: Evidence for an Intelligent Creator from Contemporary Science

VII. Conclusion

Bibliography Notes