Sentences with phrase «as mystical experiences»

But those are merely the «specs,» Heaven assures us that in the realm of contemporary art — a desert of posturing phonies, counterfeit authenticity, and gimmicks posing as mystical experiences — genuine art can still be found.

This time, the cycle was broken by an event that Johnson describes as a mystical experience in which God broke through and asked, «Why are you fighting me?»

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«It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer - hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down,» he said.

A player can have something resembling the self - forgetfulness of mystical experience, as he so fully enters the flow of the game that he becomes indistinguishable from it.

As with the mystical tradition in general, the danger is that the Pentecostal mystical experience becomes a mere escape from the world rather than a preparation for a purposeful reinsertion into the world.

Such names as these bring us to the mystical «union of the soul with God,» as this supreme experience in prayer has been described.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

The New Testament never speaks of the training of the soul in mystical experience or of ecstasy as the culmination of the Christian life.

On the way he uncovers some treasures which have been underused in criticism, such as Tolkien's description of a mystical experience he had while attending a Forty Hours devotion, an experience that fed into his vision of angels and subsequent characterisation of the Elvish in LOTR.

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's 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.

Respected neurologists such as Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues Eugene D'Aquili and Vince Rause (authors of Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief), say not only that we're wired to dream but that we are wired to have unifying mystical experiences.

Exodus Nineteen describes that context, portraying it as a mysterious, mystical experience of God.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

Many converts are attracted by Orthodoxy's emphasis on mystical experience as opposed to the perceived preoccupation in Protestantism on the rational aspect of the Christian faith.

It seems the world is made up of: — persons who enter a mystical state and experience oneness and tranquility — persons who have adverse reactions as their minds dissociate resulting in their experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena

May I emphasize the fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as aesthetic, ethical, religious experiences, intuition, inspiration, states of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

People have been eating, smoking, drinking, and injecting various chemicals for thousands of years and had all sorts of «mystical» experiences as a result.

During my 30 years as a Mormon, I sincerely believed that mystical «spiritual experiences» aligned me with my heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Ghost (I believed in three separate gods, but no Trinity) in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS).

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

This level of hermeneutics is open to mystical experiences and intuitions, as Raimon Panikkar has brought to the fore again and again, while it can also be found in Boff.

That's not surprising, because as William James pointed out in «The Varieties of Religious Experience», two of the defining qualities of mystical experience are noetic quality and ineExperience», two of the defining qualities of mystical experience are noetic quality and ineexperience are noetic quality and ineffability.

As in the narratives of Jesus» baptism (Mk 1:10 - 11 and parallels), his words here may refer to a mystical experience, or they may express symbolically his certainty of Satan's downfall.

It is here, in other words, that one becomes aware of the mystical in its most unencumbered form — not as something uncannily «other» to ordinary experience, but rather as something interwoven into all experiencing.

What can be communicated are mystical ideas, that is, intellectual formulations which mystics take to be appropriate to their experience and as accurate as it is possible to be within the limits of the sensory - intellectual consciousness.

All too often mystical ideas have been confused with the experiences and then integrated into philosophical systems as if they were the product of reasoning.

We must, first of all, regard mystical experience and insight as a means, not as an end.

While there have been many different usages, there has been a growing consensus in recent years among scholars as to what mystical experience is and its varieties.

I would prefer to consider as mystical all that refers to faith as it directly affects human experience.

For Augustinians there is never an absolute disjunction between intellectual and mystical experience, for all experience has the power and truth of God's being as its ground.

Have you ever had any sort of mystical experience, or as A. H. Maslow puts it in humanistic terms, a peak experience?

The domain of religion has to do for the most part with other sorts of experience such as the sense of being forsaken, forgiveness, caring for, having courage, sensing an at - one - ness with the universe and many others, including what some call mystical experience.

God, for our pantheists, is experienced in some vaguely mystical way as the absence of personal reality, as the losing of oneself in some kind of divine oceanic whole.

So, Armstrong explains that the fundamental experience of the Trinitarian God isn't personal at all, and that the mystical God absorbs himself (or herself) in some undifferentiated way to creation as a whole.

It is well known that St. Thomas, towards the end of his life and having had some sort of mystical experience, described the Summa by comparison as «so much straw» after which he stopped working on it.

What is called apophatic theology says that we can only say what God is not — «Neti, Neti», «not this, not that», as the famous Hindu text puts it God, as mystical theology insists, can not be spoken of, but must be experienced.

The only respect in which the LSD experience might fail to qualify as mystical would be in terms of the definition of mysticism as a process; and then the failure would not be a failure of the experience itself, but a failure by a subject to integrate the peak experience into the greater whole of experience.

Whatever their experience, it is unique and relevant to them as partners, parents and family.This place Between the Worlds is the trance - like altered state where the opportunity exists to access the mystical state of transformation.

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.

Near - death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features.

o Demystifying kundalini o Exploration and experience of your central channel aka sushumna nadi o Understanding chakras as way to understand our tendencies o Balancing energy channels and polarities in body and mind (nadis) o Everyday application of dual / non-dual philosophies o The mystical endocrine system and how the glands relate to our chakras o The path from agni (fire) to tejas (radiance) to sri (seeing the world as beauty and bliss) o Healing techniques and worldview to support your transformation as you live in the real world o The power of yoga nidra

Utilizing classical belly dance as a foundation, Mystical Dance ® weaves together tantric theory, chakra energy work, yoga, meditation and sacred dance traditions to create a unique and transformational Shakti experience for all women, regardless of dance level.

Practice asana from the «mind of the endocrine system» for a unique and powerful experience as we go even deeper into the mystical aspects of our nervous systems.

How exactly he's going to fit into the MCU puzzle is still a closely guarded secret, but one thing will be certain: Audiences will be in for a mind - bending experience as the good doctor (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) is the master of the mystical arts.

Harry also learns that he's famous in mystical circles: Though his parents were murdered by a rogue wizard so wicked he's generally referred to as «You Know Who,» the infant Harry survived with only a lightning bolt - shaped scar on his forehead to show for the experience.

Other chapters discuss such concepts as death, the afterlife and heaven; the human soul; the mystical experience of the divine; and the meaning of life.

Experience the ultimate small group four wheel drive vehicle experience as you head north along the coastline of the Spencer Gulf to the lilac haze of the mystical FlindeExperience the ultimate small group four wheel drive vehicle experience as you head north along the coastline of the Spencer Gulf to the lilac haze of the mystical Flindeexperience as you head north along the coastline of the Spencer Gulf to the lilac haze of the mystical Flinders Ranges.

The 200sqm Nusa Penida offers the real «unbeaten path» experience, as it features very limited tourism infrastructure but promises an exotic scene of natural beauty and cultural allure through its barren landscapes and mystical temples.

This piece shares the artists experience of exhilaration and frenzy as they ran the last mile in the sand carrying heavy photography equipment to return to the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore mystical boneyard to catch the day's final rays.