NON BUDDHIST MYSTICISM
GLENN WALLIS
PHILOSOPHY
100 ENCOUNTERS SERIES
MARCH, 2022
ISBN: 978-8792633880
PAPERBACK | 6×9 | B&W | 100 pp
DESCRIPTION
In the enlivening tradition of the dramaturgy to “adapt a story to actable form,” Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence presents a radical reorientation to “spiritual” practice.
Drawing from François Laruelle’s concept of future mysticism and the author’s own previous work on non-buddhism, Glenn Wallis galvanizes a materialist spirituality for the twenty-first century.
Liberated from the punctilious gaze of the masters, delivered into the hands (and hearts) of the reader, this is a spirituality “born in the spirit of heresy rather than sanctity.”
The intended outcome is a subject “fit for the clash with Hell” – a person equipped, lovingly and compassionately, to confront the injustices of the world.
THE SPECIAL EDITION | SOLD OUT
This book contains 7 suimonga and calligraphy art works by Camelia Elias based on three handmade calligraphy books that feature the Enso in red, black, and peridot ink, the enso being the circle of togetherness and magic in Zen Buddhism.
On offer here is the remaining Red Book as an accompaniment to the paperback. The suimonga pattern is derived from floating ink under constraint on Japanese mulberry paper. The pattern and the enso form a gate towards a mystical experience.
THE STANDARD EDITION | AVAILABLE
The special edition is sold out. Get the standard paperback here.
Review
Building an intimate relationship between the Buddha, the mystic, and the non-philosopher, Glenn Wallis wakes the reader up to their inner-heretic: A figure that embraces the world devoid of transcendental escape. This book rescues the lost potential in these two worlds of practice and desire, and returns it to the hands of the reader. It is also a call for modern bodhisattvas to take up arms against the delusion and confusion laid out in the hallucinations of readymade answers to a complex world provided by those all-knowing wisdom holders: Mindful Gurus, Enlightenment Experts, Spiritual Wonder Peddlers, and the overly sure. Read at your peril; it could change your life!
– Matthew Joseph O’Connell, The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
