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Reddit mentions of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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A few months ago I got interested in this topic as well, largely due to reading Ben Morgan's On Becoming God, which talked about identity as something that we do in communities. To do this, Morgan first 'clears the ground' of contemporary thoughts about identity, which are generally isolated objects, and goes back to medieval Europe, and in Meister Eckhart finds a way of doing identity that is more communal. It's a wonderful entry into the subject, as well as a great introduction to religious mysticism as well.
Another book that's arriving in the mail tomorrow is Self, Value and Narrative, which I obviously haven't read yet, but it apparently is going to pick of the lens of Kierkegaard as a means of understanding identity. I'm super excited to read it.
> we label ourselves the 'thinker' or 'wanderer' but we ARE the thinking and wandering
This reminds me of this book, which is significantly more dense and technical than Watts, but does a really good job of exploring what mysticism was in it's original context. The later chapters also get into a combination of neuroscience and psychoanalysis as a means of studying the relationship between mysticism, neuroscience and identity, which seem to be what you're interested in.