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      “How cleansed and purified I feel.”

      I had gone through the first mystical stage

      of purgation and now I was ready for illumination.

      One night I awakened from a dream about sex

      and I just thought of my dear Janie

      and the temptation fled away.

      I knew that I would love her forever

      and that I could be pure forever just like

      Dante and the courtly lovers of the Middle Ages.

      Ironically now that I could be pure

      my confessor asked me to leave the seminary

      because a priest should not be falling in love.

      Jane was going to Northwestern University

      in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago

      so I applied to the philosophy graduate program

      at Loyola of Chicago and was accepted.

      By the time I got to Loyola in January

      Jane already had a real and normal boyfriend.

      So we had some lovely meetings but I was free

      to study philosophy which all seemed so real.

      It seemed that at the heart of each philosophy

      was a philosophy of love and I just loved

      studying Plato especially his Symposium

      and his Phaedrus which explained sublimation.

      Aristotle, the Stoics, the Medievals and

      the Postmodernists each had a new philosophy of love.

      From Loyola to the College of St. Francis

      Father Hecht SJ, the chair of the philosophy department at Loyola,

      took excellent care of me by giving me a scholarship that took care

      of everything from tuition, to room and board, to all of my books.

      He introduced me to Mr. Kelling who took me to live with him

      in a wonderful hotel right next to the downtown Loyola Tower.

      Then he told me that they needed a philosophy teacher at St. Francis

      College in Juliet, Illinois about fifty miles south of Chicago.

      The wonderful sisters of St. Francis took me as their colleague

      and after having lived in a community of men for nine years

      I was now in a community of most beautiful ladies who had

      the highest ideas of holy love and wisdom as they were educated

      and then taught others in grade school, high school and college.

      I could teach whatever I wanted to learn and we always thought

      together about the Augustinian, Thomistic and Franciscan philosophies.

      I took a course on Plotinus at Loyola from Fr. Nurnberger SJ

      and I thought deeply about Augustine’s reflections on him.

      Augustine’s motto came to be “credo ut intellegam,”

      “I believe that I might understand,”

      and that took him beyond mystical monism

      to the gift of faith in the dignity of all persons as children of God.

      The Franciscan nuns loved making clear how the Franciscans

      built upon this and how Scotus showed the uniqueness of each person

      and how Ockham showed how we can never know the complex person

      but how our faith can let us love all as did St. Francis.

      As a youth in the seminary I read the works of St. John of the Cross.

      The active meditative night of the soul and the passive contemplative

      night of the soul fit right in with Augustine fulfilling Plotinus

      and with the Franciscan extension of love to all of God’s creatures.

      I was so fortunate to be able to learn with the beautiful Sisters

      and the beautiful students and for nine years absence made

      my heart grow fonder then all of a sudden presence gifted me

      with the heavenly delight of the other half of my soul for ever and ever.

      From Loyola and St. Francis to the Phenomenology Workshop

      In 1964, Herbert Spiegelberg got a grant and was able to invite

      ten philosophers for a two-week seminar on phenomenology.

      I was one of seven Americans and John Mayer, who founded the

      philosophy department at Brock, was one of the three Canadians.

      We all came to see that phenomenology is a theory of intentional

      consciousness, an attitude of respect for the concrete and a

      method of description begun by Husserl and continued by many.

      At Loyola I was introduced to phenomenology by studying

      Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and we read Heidegger’s

      Being and Time as soon as it was translated into English.

      I continued to work on it with Barbara Henning at St. Francis.

      I memorized the eighty-four headings in the table of contents and gave

      a talk on it at the second workshop in 1965 and John Mayer

      asked me if I would like to come to Brock University to teach.

      That was fortunate for me because at St. Francis a beautiful

      young nun, Sister Carolyn, became ill with tuberculosis

      and when I visited her in the infirmary I told her that I would

      pray for her twice each day and I believed that she would recover.

      I told her that I loved her as if she were my sister, or my

      mother or my wife and that I would always love her forever.

      She told this to Sister Anita Marie, the president of the college.

      Sister called me to her office and told me I should not

      speak like that and that I should get a job teaching elsewhere.

      So when Dr. Mayer asked me to come to Brock it was a relief.

      Studying phenomenology prepared me well for what I would

      encounter at Brock and especially the idea of intentional

      consciousness helped me to think about agape and bhakti.

      The monistic mysticism which sees Atman as Brahman

      sees Brahman as pure being, pure bliss and pure consciousness.

      A personal God always has an intentional consciousness

      as distinct from the pure consciousness of monistic mysticism.

      From the Catholic World to a Secular University

      Mervyn Sprung grew up a Protestant and received his PhD

      in Philosophy from the University of Berlin and deep in his mind

      and heart he was a Buddhist for he loved a philosophy of peace.

      As a Corporal in the army he thought about the war-like ways

      of


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