id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ba7f6c77cnebfnuqjjycu2kide Barry Andrews That Which Was Ecstasy Shall Become Daily Bread 2017.0 18 .pdf application/pdf 12877 849 63 Keywords: mysticism; experience; Emerson; Transcendentalism; Unitarianism a new understanding of the individual's relation to the universal Soul revealed in ecstatic experiences. In his first book, Nature, Emerson described an ecstatic experience he once had crossing the Boston mystical experience is ineffable and therefore cannot be described, as Emerson has attempted to Versluis points to the same passage in Nature to show that Emerson's mysticism is esoteric in the Like Emerson, James felt that everyone was capable of having a mystical experience even if, as James The great name of Emerson must occur to every American who writes of mysticism...His a new understanding of mysticism and spirituality and their role in personal religious life. the redefinition of religion and mystical experience wrought by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. The emphasis on religious experience is central to Unitarian Universalism, and Emerson is still regarded But the nature of religious experience as Emerson described it ./cache/work_ba7f6c77cnebfnuqjjycu2kide.pdf ./txt/work_ba7f6c77cnebfnuqjjycu2kide.txt