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Book excerpt: Portilla, Isaac. The Possibilities of Spiritual Experience: An Autobiographical and Philosophical Exploration. Madrid: Editorial Mirlo, 2017. (Index; p. 6-8)

Index
By Isaac Portilla

Introductory Chapters (p. -25)

   The Three Mystics Tale
   Preface: Beyond the Nirvanas
   Important Considerations for the Reader

Spiritual Autobiography (p. 26-111)

   My Awakening
   Learning the Language of Living Energy
   The Christ Event
   Self Realization and the Beginning of Descending Grace
   The Revelation of the Luminous Personal Self
   The Triple Structure of the Divine
   The Krishna Event
   The Frontal Descent and the Challenge of Regeneration

The Three Pillars Model (p. 112-253)

   21st c.: The Age of Enlightenment of Spirituality?
​       Spirituality and the Enlightenment Age
       Bridge-Fields Are Not Enough
       Why Spiritual Enquiry
       The Cycle of Investigation and Growth

   Model Construction: The Method of Spiritual Enquiry
       The Process of Emergence
       Logical (Rational) Enquiry
       Experiential (Supra-rational) Enquiry
       Demarcation, Axioms and Spiritual Science

   Advantages of the Three Pillars Model
       First: Respect for Each Contribution
       Second: Scientific Inclusiveness
       Third: Equal Acknowledgment of All Aspects of Being
       Fourth: Freedom within Possibilities

   The Three Pillars Model (An Overview)
       Chart 1. The Nine Aspects of Being
       Chart 2. Basic Correspondences
       Chart 3. Exploratory Correspondences
       Chart 4. Stages of the Three Processes
       Glossary (Three Pillars Model Terminology)

References (p. 254-262)

Bibliography
Quotation Notes
About the Author
© 2017 Isaac Portilla

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Preface: Beyond the Nirvanas. There are truths beyond the nirvanas and ecstasies, beyond the transcendental perspectives and the present-moment awareness, which are waiting to be recognized... (read more)

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My Awakening. In May, 2003, at the age of 25, I sat for meditation.  This was just a few weeks after I had decided to be truly committed to the spiritual path—“whatever that might be,” I used to think at that time....  (read more)

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Spirituality and the Enlightenment Age. After years of serious dedication to experiential spirituality and research, I arrived at a striking and paradoxical conclusion: spirituality—the so-called ‘science of Enlightenment’—never reached the Enlightenment Age...  (read more)

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Glossary (Three Pillars Model Terminology): Divine Cognition; Enlightenment; God (mystical-scientific def.); Light Threshold; Logos; Nadis; Overmind; Self Realization; Supermind...  (read more)

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