Donaldson gives us a new structure for looking at the human mind in which religious and
mystical experience find their niche.
Not exact matches
Rather they emphasize the
experience of
mystical illumination and seek in their religious action to overcome all dualisms and
find unity with nature and the universe.
Or you have heard it presented like this: To be a Christian you must have
mystical experiences — and then a picture has been drawn of inward tumults miraculously stilled, of upheavals like a storm in summer coming to a sunset all peace and glory, so that, not having attained to such
experiences or having
found them elusive and fleeting, you have cried once more, I can not.
So that has led me to believe, through my
findings, studies and personal
mystical experiences that we do indeed have an energy called the soul and there is a consciousness beyond and out of a human body.
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.
I had an unmedicated birth in the hospital with a CNM and a doula, and I did not
find it the
mystical or empowering
experience that the Natural Birth community insists that it is.
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.
The lack of any superhuman,
mystical, magical, or enhanced attributes commonly
found in gaming protagonists will have you relying on your own wits and the contours of the gaming world present like you've never seen or
experience before.
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.