Psycho-practices in Mystical Traditions from the Antiquity to the Present.

by Andrey Safronov

In the book a complex, retrospective research of a phenomenon of psychopractices is made: their methods, philosophical substantiations, evolution, and interaction with other forms of spiritual life. The special attention is given to the psychopracticies presented in the modern world. In this work such question, as a place of the changed conditions of consciousnesss in culture and religion, religion role in formation and social type maintenance, cultural value of the esoteric psychopracticies...