Sentences with phrase «mystical experience»

He includes his own mystical experience in his analysis.

None of this work is without controversy, but an increasing number of scientists now think that our brains are wired for mystical experiences.

The experts compared this data with data from healthy combat veterans to see how specific brain regions were tied to reported mystical experiences.

Like all genuine mystical experiences, these were significant because of their revelations to the poet.

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

We made plans to move the east coast of the USA, and then, because Canada was singing me home, and her music wound itself around your own dreams somehow, maybe it was that mystical experience on the roof of the Delta Hotel in Calgary that one night, when you felt like you belonged north of the 49th, and we packed up everything into a U-Haul trailer and drove out for the west coast.

Aldous Huxley once observed that there ought to be a way to talk about mystical experience in terms of biochemistry, psychology and theology.

What happened in them can be explained as mystical experiences, such as you and I sometimes have when we feel the real presence of Christ at the communion table or in some great moment.

To be sure, there are Western versions of Zen which have attracted followers and which have elements of value in them, but their side - stepping of philosophical argument, their fatalistic attitude toward existence, their obsessive emphasis on achieving a special kind of mystical experience which is supposed to answer all questions, make them, it seems to me, intellectually and practically irrelevant to your problems.

It is clear from his autobiographical statements that Paul was able to move freely from one mode of consciousness to another, from the left hemisphere to, the right, and back again — from law to grace, from mystical experience to ethical evaluation.

We are left with the ontic question of whether or not brahman is «realized» The Indian mystical experience certainly occurs.

For a year following this encounter, Mother Teresa was graced by a series of deep mystical experiences with Jesus.

According to Griffiths, 61 percent of the participants had answers indicating a «complete mystical experience» after psilocybin compared with only 11 percent after Ritalin.

A Zen Buddhist, Strassman was intrigued by the possibility that endogenous DMT plays a role in triggering mystical experiences.

Bonding has at times been portrayed as an almost mystical experience for mothers following the birth of their child.

Elsewhere he mentioned other mystical experiences.

Both studies found that patients who have a stronger mystical experience also showed a better outcome, whether or not they reported being religious, says Stephen Ross, who led the NYU study.

Nevertheless, Newberg concludes, an «evolutionary perspective suggests that the neurobiology of mystical experience arose, at least in part, from the mechanism of the sexual response.»

Mystical experience opened other channels for thought of God.

Both the author of The Cloud of Unknowing and Walter Hilton appear critical of Richard Rolle's (c.1300 - 49) emphasis on affective mystical experiences of «heat», «sweetness» and «song».

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.

He emphasizes that contrary to what people usually think, the great mystics absolutely do not confuse mystical experience with visions.

But in the great age of prophecy, the eighth to sixth centuries, physical rneans seem to have been abandoned, and the whole ecstatic phenomenon was sublimated toward quieter mystical experiences induced by deep meditation.

I need a peaceful mystical experience.

I haven't finished reading The Mythmaker yet, but both books seem to discount Paul's mystical experience completely, which I think is a mistake.

For purposes of time, we shall center our summary of Aurobindo's mystical experience only on the first of these realizations.

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.

We have no «scientific» proof, but evidence from subjective, mystical experiences abounds.

It was such mystical experiences that were to be one of the spiritual roots from which the World Congress of Faiths was to grow.

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.

There is even a sense in which the person who hopes seeks thereby to lose or abandon herself to God, taking on the attitude of complete surrender that is typical of mystical experience everywhere.

Thinking back to my own uninvited mystical experiences, I felt swallowed by them and filled with emotion, while the details of my surroundings — the colors, the reflections, the shapes — were more defined, brighter and more intense than ever.

Donaldson gives us a new structure for looking at the human mind in which religious and mystical experience find their niche.

Andrew Newberg, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, has focused on the tendency of people from different religious traditions to report similar mystical experiences, which typically involve sensations of self - transcendence and «oneness.»

In fact, you could have a few mystical experiences this year, perhaps in the form of serendipities and «signs» that affirm you're on (or off) your path.

Compelled to his task by a direct mystical experience, Father Damien has made enormous sacrifices, and experienced the joys of commitment as well as deep suffering.

It's not difficult to get me to Morocco, especially to the medina in Fez, up in the Atlas Mountains, and then, at the base of those mountains, the truly mystical experience that awaits in Marrakech.

His performance art pieces were mystical experiences often described as shamanistic in nature because of Beuys» tendency to incorporate ritualized gestures and sounds.

This distinction is an advance upon Underhill's understanding, for it clarifies what is said about mystical experience from the experience itself.

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.

The Pentecostal movement has a prominent place for mystical experiences in the life of the Church.

Paul's vision was probably a genuine mystical experience, though he may not have fully understood it.