Sentences with phrase «mystical experience only»

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

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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.

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

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.

More precisely, from a Whiteheadian standpoint, we should say that, if God is loving, then we all feel this, at some level, all the time, so that the only extraordinary feature of mystical experiences is that in them this feeling of the holy rises to the level of conscious awareness.

It does not only imply discourse but rather is a sharing and communicating of mystical experience.41 Applying a metaphor of space, this sharing and communication happens in the deep.

That expression may seem too strong — but only if we think the mystical is the exceptional rather than a spiritual experience that belongs to the essence of religion and remains accessible to all believers.

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.

What is called apophatic theology says that we can only say what God is not — «Neti, Neti», «not this, not that», as the famous Hindu text puts it God, as mystical theology insists, can not be spoken of, but must be experienced.

The only respect in which the LSD experience might fail to qualify as mystical would be in terms of the definition of mysticism as a process; and then the failure would not be a failure of the experience itself, but a failure by a subject to integrate the peak experience into the greater whole of experience.

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.

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