NO! Absolutely not. Not even as an entheogen! – a psychoactive plant or chemical used to experience the Mystical Experience…
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A Road Less Traveled
Originally posted on Weltanschauung:
If we seek reality, I am told that we look in the wrong direction by obsessing…
QUIETISM AS A PRACTICE?
No! On the matter of quietism, what I know is that nothing a mystic does is a “practice” if my…
ART
From the point of view of a mystic or seeker, art is a human artifice, not the real thing –…
BEING RELIGIOUS
Being religious doesn’t make you spiritual any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. Anon Anon
HINT TO SEEKERS
The mysticism that was revealed to me in my multiple, spontaneous experiences of Reality (MER) does not seek or find…
SPONTANEOUS AWAKENING EXPERIENCES: BEYOND RELIGION AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
By: Steve Taylor, M. Sc., PGCE Leeds, United Kingdom This academic paper appears to describe the experience of my spontaneous,…
INTUITION
A baffled medical specialist came looking for me at the hospital coffee shop to demand, in my mid-sip: “You’re a…
120 ACADEMIC PAPERS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE MENTIONED ‘MYSTIC EXPERIENCES OF REALITY’ SO FAR SINCE PUBLICATION
Can you help? Every day Academia.edu send me notification of up to seven mentions a day of my name being…
MYSTICISM, PRACTICAL V. THEORETICAL?
“Mysticism is practical, not theoretical.” – Evelyn Underhill Evelyn Underhill in “Mysticism: The nature and development of spiritual consciousness”, Oxford 1994,…
THE MIND’S MYSTICAL ROLE?
“Perhaps then it is only ‘mind’ which is primary. Perhaps then mind is information and it is information which constitutes…
ACADEMIA POURING OUT CONJECTURE ON MYSTICISM
Academia.edu tells me the web page has found 25,450 papers on comparative mysticism written by academics in leading universities around…
DEFINING MYSTICISM, A SURVEY OF MAIN DEFINITIONS
By Saeed Zarrabizadeh, University of Erfurt, Germany Abstract: Since the beginning of the modern studies about mysticism in the second…
DOES REALITY DEMAND WORSHIP?
Q. In your mystical experiences of Reality, (MER), did Reality demand worship, service, duties, observances or rituals? No. The idea…
MYSTICISM A FORM OF KNOWLEDGE NOT FELT BY THE RATIONAL MIND?
I can think of no better definition of mysticism than that I found in a comment by Anna Nimm on a website…
Mystical Experiences of Reality 