Sentences with phrase «direct mystical experience»

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I hope I am right in thinking that you have enjoyed a direct experience of God - an experience of communion with the Central Spirit of Things and have known what intensity of joy and exaltation of spirit that mystical experience brings.

When he directed these fields toward the temporal lobes, Persinger's helmet induced the sort of mystical, free - of - the - body experiences common to right temporal lobe epileptics, meditators, and people who have had near - death experiences.

Walter Smith, «Ad Reinhardt's Oriental Aesthetic,» Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Summer / Fall 1990, p. 43, sees Reinhardt's black paintings as imparting «a sense, rather than a depiction, of the Buddhist mystical state known as sunyata, the great void, or emptiness, the direct experience of which is the enlightened state of nirvana.»