Varieties of Nothingness

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book explores the many and diverse ways in which nothingness is weaved into the fabric of our existence. It can express the very ground of reality or a cessation of mind: a winking out as well as being a guide for painting meditative states. It is inescapably linked with the divine in many traditions as a precondition of our existence. It is the Pleroma before consciousness and the gateway to enlightenment. While these essays are indeed wide ranging and eclectic they share one theme in common: nothingness is not nothing. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Table of Contents</p><p><em>List of Contributors </em></p><p><em>Editors' Introduction </em></p><p><strong>Existential Grounding</strong></p><p>1 <em>Your Cosmos Needs You! From Nothingness to Quantum Existentialism - </em>Dean Rickles </p><p>2 <em>Of Mind and Void: Understanding The Duality of Existence and Nothingness - </em>Ian Durham </p><p><strong>Experiential Possibilities</strong></p><p>3 <em>Varieties of Experiencing Nothingness - </em>Harald Atmanspacher </p><p>4 <em>Who or What Experiences Nothingness? Reflections from Psychoanalysis - </em>Leslie Stein </p><p>5 <em>Nothingness in Meditation: Making Sense of Emptiness and Cessation - </em>Vismay Agrawal and Ruben E. Laukkonen </p><p><strong>Logico-Philosophical Forms</strong></p><p>6 <em>Ex Nihilo Omnis Fit - </em>Graham Priest </p><p>7 <em>Hegel on Nothing (in particular): A Greek Alternative to the Problem of Infinitesimals - </em>Paul Redding </p><p>8 <em>Nothingness: Martin Heidegger and Georges Perec - </em>Inja Stracenski and Daniela Helbig </p><p><strong>Artistic and Cultural Forms</strong></p><p>9 <em>The Vitality of Nothingness in Jing Hao's Notes on the Art of the Brush - </em>David Chai </p><p>10 <em>Thoughts on Nothingness from Japan - </em>James W. Heisig </p><p><strong>Theological Expression</strong></p><p>11 <em>'Something Formless Yet Complete': Nothing and Divine Consciousness - </em>Gerard Guiton </p><p>12 <em>Apophaticism and Deifi cation in Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa - </em>Ken Parry </p><p>13 <em>Nothingness and the Desire for Being: Der Nister's Modernist Zoharic Theogony - </em>Nathan Wolski</p><p><br></p>