The Big Book of Christian Mysticism is an excellent introduction to the topic for beginners and is informative to those who have read widely on the topic.
Readable, useful, well-researched, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism helps both the novice and those already well along on the journey to see that mysticism is not a mysterious quest, but a human — and possible — one.
Michael Krahn
Hey,
I just put up a series of posts about Thomas Merton that I think you’d enjoy at:
http://michaelkrahn.com/blog/thomas-merton/