The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism

Herbert Thurston, S.J.'s “invaluable work of reference” (said the Times Literary Supplement in 1952) is back in print for Catholics crying out for guidance—and getting little—on such matters today. His topics? We'll let all these major reviewers of his time, including the redoubtable London Tablet, outline them for you: “One by one he examines the wonder of levitation, stigmata, telekinesis (movement of a body without material connection with the moving cause), luminous phenomena, human salamanders, to mention but a few. Even the ordinary ‘thriller fan' will find plenty of stimulus.”—Irish Ecclesiastical Record “A major section is concerned with stigmata. Is any subject more controversial?...This book certainly teaches us how very little we now know about what the human body can endure or do, and the effect of the mind upon it.