Mysticism, Death and Dying

This book charts the borderline between the nocturnal side of mysticism and the luminous side of death and it illuminates their paradoxical affinities. Within a culture of both denial and despair, it affirms the reality but not the finality of death. If what the generations have called the mystery of death is the last enemy, a still more mysterious mysticism would anticipate, illuminate and disarm it, issuing in what eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. This work is contemporary in that it represents a creative and original appropriation of tradition, is spiritually more mystical than devotional and is ecumenically conversant with and sensitive to the great religious traditions."