Carse interprets his own life with the help of the Sufi poets, Aristotle, Descartes and Freud. Drawing parables from daily experience (a golf match, a Hallowe'en party, a mouse eating a grain), Carse gently prods the reader to see beyond the obvious in the world and into their lives.
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Carse interprets his own life with the help of the Sufi poets, Aristotle, Descartes and Freud. Drawing parables from daily experience (a golf match, a Hallowe'en party, a mouse eating a grain), Carse gently prods the reader to see beyond the obvious in the world and into their lives.
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"This was true mystical vision. This I could never have anticipated. But I knew that we were both on the same galactic journey into the great void that contains us all. I was standing before a boundlessness that could swallow the stars in a heartbeat."-from Breakfast at the Victory
"This was true mystical vision. This I could never have anticipated. But I knew that we were both on the same galactic journey into the great void that contains us all. I was standing before a boundlessness that could swallow the stars in a heartbeat."--from Breakfast at the Victory
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James P. Carse is Professor Emeritus of Religion at New York University, where for thirty years he directed the Religious Studies Program. His previous books include "The Silence of God, Finite and Infinite Games," and "Breakfast at the Victory,"
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