Pluriverse (Routledge Revivals)

<p><em>Pluriverse</em> the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened that he had undergone a mystical experience and that he had come to a realisation of the true nature of reality. </p><p>This title is the fullest exposition of Blood’s esoteric Christian philosophy-cum-theology which though deemed wildly eccentric by commentators both during his lifetime and later in the twentieth century was nonetheless one of the most influential sources for American mystical-empiricism. In particular Blood’s thought was a major inspiration for William James and can be seen to prefigure the latter’s concept of Sciousness directly. </p>