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Recommended Readings on Primary Religious Experience

Huxley, Aldous. The Perennial Philosophy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1946.

Maslow, Abraham H. Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1964.

James S. Cutsinger, ed. Not of This World. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2003.

Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy. London: Oxford University Press, 1923, 1958.

Schuon, Frithjof. The Transcendent Unity of Religions. Quest Books, 1984.

Smith, Huston. Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1977, 1992.

Stace, W.T. Mysticism and Philosophy. London: MacMillan Press, 1960.

Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. 1911.

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