Sentences with phrase «mystical experience on»
And the most influential books of the New Testament, on which Christianity is actually based, are the writings of Paul, who never met Jesus face to face, never heard him speak, but thanks to a mystical experience on the road to Damascus, suddenly became the world's greatest expert on Christ.
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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.
He turned around and said (with an ugly expression on his face), «And I don't want you talking about a mystical experience.»
On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»
The stress on action over against teaching (the kerygmatic tradition) and religious experience (the mystical tradition) is significant, for it ties in directly with the way of the parables.
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 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.
The mystical and the charismatic, although very different in their outer manifestations, have a similar emphasis on experience of the Spirit of God.
He has bound himself to his word, and though he is God anyways, always, everywhere, powerful, etc., we do not seek him in self - chosen places, or in mystical experience or in what I call self - masturbation worship experience of whipping up emotions, or whatever else we come up with on our own.
For purposes of time, we shall center our summary of Aurobindo's mystical experience only on the first of these realizations.
Those concepts and insights were inspired by their intuitive awareness of God, but those people, being imperfect in their embodiment of the Christ, were subject to misunderstanding and misinterpretation of their mystical thoughts and experiences; not to mention the temptation to put a spin on them from personal and selfish motives.
On college campuses students flock to courses in religious studies, keep local Zen masters busy, and startle their teachers with tales of conversion and mystical experiences.
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.
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.
Rhythms of the Night is an immersive dinner show experience like none other, transforming your night into an enchanted evening on a mystical land.
A subject in a study of the effects of hallucinogens on brain chemistry recounts her mystical, life - changing experiences under the influence of psilocybin
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.
Andrew's research now largely focuses on how brain function is associated with various mental states — in particular, religious and mystical experiences.
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.
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 has spent several years studying brain physiology and function, with focus on the neurology of religious and mystical experiences.
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.
The works on display will investigate the concept of space and environment — whether it is in a social, physical or mystical sense; artwork uniquely interprets the artists» experience of their surroundings.
Kounellis, who died last year at the age of 80, was a key figure in the Arte Povera movement, best known for sculptures and installations that invoke the contemporary world of politics and things, industrial and natural, while conjuring experiences that border on the mystical.
Charles Burchfield (1893 - 1967), worked almost exclusively in watercolor on paper and his primary subject was his experience of nature in his immediate surroundings — scenes from his backyard, vistas near his home captured and imbued with highly expressionistic light, at times creating a clear - eyed depiction of the world and at other times one that is wholly unique, mystical, and visionary.
Strong draws this out, mediating on the spiritual and mystical possibility of this being the cause of our unbalanced world; the works are mirrors through which you can experience this story of unhinged paranoia.»
On view are two new installations, Totality and Phoenix, both of which make use of astronomical research to create a mystical, contemplative experience.
My personal opinion — based on nothing other than a subjective feeling — is that the black paintings do provide a contemplative experience I would call mystical.