Varieties of Nothingness

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.

Edited by Dean Rickles & Leslie Stein

Contributors include:

• Vismay Agrawal     
• Harald Atmanspacher
• David Chai
• Ian Durham   
• Gerard Guiton
• James W. Heisig
• Daniela Helbig
• Ruben E. Laukkonen
• Ken Parry
• Graham Priest
• Paul Redding
• Inja Stracenski 
• Nathan Wolski