Pt. 1, Lecture 1. A way into the mystic ways of the West --
Lecture 2. Family resemblances and differences --
Lecture 3. The biblical roots of Western mysticism --
Lecture 4. Mysticism in early Judaism --
Lecture 5. Merkabah mysticism --
Lecture 6. The Hasidim of medieval Germany --
Lecture 7. The beginnings of Kabbalah --
Lecture 8. Mature Kabbalah: Zohar --
Lecture 9. Isaac Luria and Safed spirituality --
Lecture 10. Sabbatai Zevi and messianic mysticism --
Lecture 11. The Ba'al Shem Tov and the new Hasidism --
Lecture 12. Mysticism in contemporary Judaism.
Pt. 2, Lecture 13. Mystical elements in the New Testament --
Lecture 14. Gnostic Christianity --
Lecture 15. The spirituality of the desert --
Lecture 16. Shaping Christian mysticism in the East --
Lecture 17. Eastern monks and the Hesychastic tradition --
Lecture 18. The mysticism of Western monasticism --
Lecture 19. Medieval female mystics --
Lecture 20. Mendicants as mystics --
Lecture 21. English mystics of the 14th century --
Lecture 22. 15th- and 16th-century Spanish mystics --
Lecture 23. Mysticism among Protestant reformers --
Lecture 24. Mystical expressions in Protestantism.
Pt. 3, Lecture 25. 20th-century mystics --
Lecture 26. Muhammad the prophet as mystic --
Lecture 27. The house of Islam --
Lecture 28. The mystical sect: Shi'a --
Lecture 29. The appearance of Sufism --
Lecture 30. Early Sufi masters --
Lecture 31. The limits of mysticism: Al-Ghazzali --
Lecture 32. Two masters, two streams --
Lecture 33. Sufism in 12th-14th century North Africa --
Lecture 34. Sufi saints of Persia and India --
Lecture 35. The continuing Sufi tradition --
Lecture 36. Mysticism in the West today.