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This chapter engages in a comparative exegesis of two 1960s mystics: Alan Watts told his workaholic generation, “don’t just do something—sit there”; while Abraham Joshua Heschel was deeply involved in combatting the political injustices which fundamentally contradicted the new emerging inner life: “it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.” Distinguishing between centripetal and centrifugal mysticisms brings a magnifying-glass to the prevailing reification which treats as real the consensus-abstraction of neuron, mechanism, and efficacy which could risk creating a culture of—in R.C. Zaehner’s words—“canned mysticism.”

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Is Canned Mysticism Compossible? Centripetal and Centrifugal Mysticism: When Does Vision Meet Practice?

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    2025年

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  • Mark Juhan Schunemann

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This chapter engages in a comparative exegesis of two 1960s mystics: Alan Watts told his workaholic generation, “don’t just do something—sit there”; while Abraham Joshua Heschel was deeply involved in combatting the political injustices which fundamentally contradicted the new emerging inner life: “it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.” Distinguishing between centripetal and centrifugal mysticisms brings a magnifying-glass to the prevailing reification which treats as real the consensus-abstraction of neuron, mechanism, and efficacy which could risk creating a culture of—in R.C. Zaehner’s words—“canned mysticism.”