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Spiritual Transmission: Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path Copyright © 2018 by Amir Freimann
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-939681-95-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-939681-96-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Freimann, Amir, 1958- author.
Title: Spiritual transmission : paradoxes and dilemmas on the spiritual path / Amir Freimann ; foreword by Paul Cohen ; afterword by Ken Wilbur.
Description: Rhinebeck, New York : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018030578 (print) | LCCN 2018046244 (ebook) | ISBN 9781939681966 (eBook) | ISBN 9781939681959 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Spiritual life. | Religious adherents. | Religious leaders. | Interpersonal relations--Religious aspects.
Classification: LCC BL624 (ebook) | LCC BL624 .F743 2018 (print) | DDC 204--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018030578
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Dedicated to all my teachers and students—past, present and future
CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
FOREWORD by Paul Cohen
THE WHY, HOW AND WHAT OF THE BOOK
THE FUNCTIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP
CHAPTER 1: THE NON-TEACHER TEACHER
CHAPTER 2: SPIRITUAL FRIEND OR GURU?
CHAPTER 3: PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
CHAPTER 4: SPIRITUAL INTIMACY AND SEXUAL INTIMACY
CHAPTER 5: PSYCHOLOGY OR SPIRITUALITY?
CHAPTER 6: TRANSFORMATIVE VS. TRANSLATIVE
CHAPTER 7: THE TRUST CONTRACT
CHAPTER 8: CHALLENGES AND CRISES
CHAPTER 9: MUTUALITY AND HIERARCHY
CHAPTER 10: WHAT’S IN IT FOR THE TEACHER?
CHAPTER 11: THE PRICE OF REVELATION
CHAPTER 12: SURRENDER AND AUTONOMY
CHAPTER 13: WHOSE UNDERSTANDING IS IT ANYWAY?
EPILOGUE
AFTERWORD BY KEN WILBER
ABOUT THE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS REFERENCED IN THIS BOOK
REFERENCES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FOREWOOD
WHY I PUBLISHED SPIRITUAL TRANSMISSION
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