Sentences with phrase «mystical experience also»
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.
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Mystical experiences also happen beyond the walls of temples and cathedrals.
Not exact matches
The second type of experience, mystical union, also seems to have common characteristics, or at least «family resemblances», in cultures which had almost no historical interaction.
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.
William James observed that mystical states, although similar to states of feeling, are also states of knowledge to those who experience them.
That poem also describes a 1980 mystical experience: «I saw / that I was a speck of light in the great / river of light that undulates through time.»
The symbolism of darkness allows us to grasp its meaning not only in its cosmological and initiatory contexts (cosmic night, prenatal darkness, etc.), but also in the mystical experience of the «dark night of the soul» of St. John of the Cross.
But in it many of the performances of genius seem also to have their origin; and in our study of conversion, of mystical experiences, and of prayer, we have seen how striking a part invasions from this region play in the religious life.
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.
He also employs a range of images and symbols that reference 16th - century Dutch painting, mandalas, hieroglyphics, and indigenous and mystical traditions, layering them into interwoven compositions that invite the viewer to approximate his otherworldly medical experience, and serve a mode of research into that experience.