Previously published: Amherst, N.Y. :Prometheus Books, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxii) and index.

The varieties of religious experience. Religion and neurology ; Circumscription of the topic ; The reality of the unseen ; The religion of healthy-mindedness ; The sick soul ; The divided self, and the process of its unification ; conversion ; conversion -- concluded ; Saintliness ; The value of saintliness ; Mysticism ; Philosophy ; Other characteristics ; Conclusions ; Postscript.

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