MYSTIC EXPERIENCES, NOT HUMAN EXPERIENCES

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A Doctor Steven Katz wrote some years ago about the “cultural and contextual influences” on mystic experiences.

In my spontaneous mystic experiences from adolescence to my mild thirties and the grooming ever since, I was initially disappointed to find there is no God or gods, no names actually, nothing human whatsoever, not even the out of body  ‘me’.

Even the communication of the experiences is different. No language is usually involved, just sometimes. 

I have a name for it: ‘It, Happens’. (The comma and capital H are deliberate).

So any scholarly, or even scientific effort for that matter, to drag the mystical experience of Reality down to the level of “cultural and contextual influences”, religious, or otherwise, misses the whole point of existence that is created by the non-human, non-biological energy mystics experience that I call Reality.

All Is Well.

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  1. Which is, of course, exactly the experience expert meditators report. A disappearance of the self. Which does indeed come with endless practice. Slowly and gradually.

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  2. And yes, no god, no voice, no language. Or at least that has been my own experience. I’m pushing my practice further and further. As I’m sure you know there is now a lot of research going on into it.

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      1. “…research on advanced meditation, .. is still in the early stages of introduction to modern culture and life.” Harvard.

      The Reality the mystics experience has nothing to do with (existentially temporary, soon to be extinct) human “modern culture and life”. That’s an oxymoron surely?

      Even successful meditation is a human attribute quite distinct from Reality’s exclusive non human, supreme immanence.

      2. Zeno, are you going to join in the Harvard effort?

      Best, as ever …

      Keith.

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      1. As to Harvard, interested though I am in the research, my utter disgust with Trump and his regime would stop me entering the US. I don’t think the border guards would be impressed by my social media posts and I don’t want to end up in Alligator Alcatraz or, worse, face extraordinary rendition to Cairo!

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