Examining Katz and Forman on Mystical Experience through the Lens of the Yoga Sutras

This analysis uses the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as a lens to examine the conflicting philosophical views on mystical experiences as defined by Stephen Katz and Robert Forman. The student finds that Forman's approach best suits Patanjali's writings, while Katz's claim that there can be no unmediated mystical experience resists conversation with the Yoga Sutras.

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"This essay has a number of strengths that ensure the reader's experience, including excellent flow across sentences, good syntax, and clear control of the material. My recommendations are mainly in refining the presentation to move into a final draft. At the lower order, make sure to remove the final punctuation within quotations before the parenthetical citation. A careful proofread should also catch occasional typos.

On the higher-order level, I recommend a few tweaks to the opening and closing; as regards the latter, I question the purpose of undercutting the discussion in your final sentence: if this is a key point about your framework, considering using it within the concluding paragraph so that it is not the final word. In terms of the opening, the purpose of the paper is not provided until the third paragraph. Would changing up the order of the first three paragraphs (e.g., swap the second and third paragraphs? make the current third paragraph your first?) allow your reader's more immediate comprehension of the project at hand?"

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