Evelyn Underhill: Mysticism

Jan 21, 2001

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I read Evelyn Underhill’s magisterial study of mysticism, the summer after I graduated from high school, and I’ve been a student/devotee of the western contemplative tradition ever since.

Truly, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness, first published in 1911, is a book that changed my life.

Underhill’s formal, yet acce…

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