Mysticism in Nature: Nature Writers and the Experience of Wholeness

alternative space Annie Dillard Arctic Dreams articulation Austin awareness CALIFORN CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ calls church civilization commentaries Cross CRUZ The University culture death desert Dillard dissolution dissolve distinction divine elusive Emerson escape Evelyn Underhill experience in nature experience of union experience of wholeness expression fragmentation frustration glimpse healing Henry David Thoreau idea individual industrialism interstice John Muir land landscape language of nature Library The University meaning system mediated mode mountains move Muir's mystical experience narratives Native American natural environment natural world nature becomes nature religion nature writers nonrational otherworldly Otto Peak Experience Philemon and Baucis production reflects religious experience retreat into nature Romantics Rumi sacred Saint John SANTA CRUZ UNIVERSITY self-awareness self-consciousness self-dissolving sense shared Snyder sort Spiritual Canticle split subject and object supernatural texts Thoreau transcendent unfulfilled desire unifying union in nature unite unity University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Waters wherein wild wilderness Yosemite