Then, you will meet highly experienced guides who will explain everything you have to know
about this mystical experience.
Aldous Huxley once observed that there ought to be a way to talk
about mystical experience in terms of biochemistry, psychology and theology.
He turned around and said (with an ugly expression on his face), «And I don't want you talking
about a mystical experience.»
Not exact matches
My friend wasn't there, and I shared my testimony (which includes the dream the Lord gave me) with another man, who unknown to me, whispered in the ear of the new pastor that I was talking
about a «
mystical experience.»
There was no artificial distinction between dogma, feeling,
experience, and work, or Jesus as Savior, nourishment, teacher, or brother to work with or for... I go back to Luther talking
about his
mystical time.
The
mystical tradition, with which I have great sympathy and
about which I have written in the companion volume What can we Learn from Hinduism, unites believers beyond the differences of doctrines and ritual and stresses the longing to
experience the presence of God.
There has subsequently been much discussion
about the nature of
mystical or religious
experience and many scholars would argue that there are varieties of spiritual
experience.
If you like young love, 60s music, saints, and
mystical experiences, you'll love the book readers are raving
about.
The questions racing through my mind
about the inexplicable lure of religious, spiritual and
mystical experiences (RSMEs) have long fascinated researchers.
For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and
mystical statement
about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary
experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.
Viewers are left to
experience the non-verbal,
mystical vastness of the film, and to subjectively reach into their own subconscious and into the film's pure imagery to speculate
about its meaning.
In addition to
experiencing the rainforest firsthand, they explored incredible
mystical Mayan ruins and thanks to
experienced guides, learned
about the centuries old Mayan civilization.
Combined with the existential turmoil the entire world was
experiencing in the 1940s, Kline's personal struggles made him the ideal representative of the ideas
about the subconscious and
mystical revelation that were emerging within the Abstract Expressionist community.
But what
about the darker side of the artistic practice, one rooted into eerie
experiences of the artist that are not easily rationalized, dealing preferably with the
mystical entities and uncertain mental phenomena?