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Riding The Windhorse »
Authors: Robert S. Corrington
ISBN-13: 9780761826194, ISBN-10: 076182619X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Robert S. Corrington
Book Synopsis
In this moving account of his struggles with manic-depressive disorder, distinguished philosopher Robert S. Corrington, creator of the school of ecstatic naturalism, presents a compelling argument for rethinking the nature of this malady. Corrington details the latest medical, psychological, and spiritual thinking about bipolar disease; a disorder characterized by extreme mood swings and that is responsible for many untimely deaths each year.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | A Life's Journey and Dreamscape | 1 |
| A | A Life's Journey | 8 |
| B | A Dreamscape | 40 |
| 2 | Body and Soul - Medical and Psychological Vistas | 55 |
| A | Medical Vistas | 58 |
| B | Psychological Vistas | 82 |
| 3 | Creativity and Genius in Manic-Depression | 103 |
| A | Creativity as Manifest in: Products, Processes, and Communities | 104 |
| B | Genius and the Not Yet | 111 |
| C | Two Case Studies of Manic-Depressive Genius: Newton and Sri Ramakrishna | 127 |
| c.a | Isaac Newton: Cosmology and Divinization | 129 |
| c.b | Sri Ramakrishna: Divine Energy | 149 |
| 4 | Intimations of Wholeness | 167 |
| A | Spirituality, Sacred Folds, and Intervals | 172 |
| B | Creative Distancing and Communal Testing | 177 |
| C | Individuation and the Spirits | 183 |
| App | My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism | 193 |
| Endnotes | 217 | |
| Bibliography | 231 | |
| Index - Names | 238 | |
| Index - Subject | 241 |
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