Jeffrey Kripal's comparative study of Western and Eastern mystics — arguing that transgressive erotic experience is a recurring and structurally important element of mystical revelation.
Comparative mysticism of the erotic: Blake's 'road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom' as an epigraph for a systematic argument. Case studies of mystics whose transformative experiences involved transgressive sexuality. The argument that modern religious studies has systematically suppressed this dimension through scholarly prudishness.
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