Ulrike Wiethaus, Ecstatic Transformation: Transpersonal Psychology in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg. Syracuse University Press, 1996
Medieval Feminist Newsletter September 1, 1996 Amy Hollywood
Ulrike Wiethaus' ambitious goal is to make medieval mysticism intellectually accessible to a modem western audience (2).To do this, she draws analogies between modem psychologies open to the existence and significance of "altered states of consciousness" and the accounts of ecstasies and visions within Mechthild of Magdeburg's The Flowing Light of the Godhead.The study is divided into two...