Explores the journey beyond union, beyond self and God, into the silent and still regions of the Unknown.

Within the traditional framework, the Christian notion of loss-of-self is generally regarded as the transformation or loss of the ego (lower self) as it attains

According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear

The aim of this volume is to discuss recent research into self-experience and its disorders, and to contribute to a better integration of the different empirica

Each person invests many of the objects in his life with his or her own unconscious meaning, each person subsequently voyages through an environment that consta