Sentences with phrase «mystical experience which»

There is no room for the mystical experience which transcends theology.

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My friend wasn't there, and I shared my testimony (which includes the dream the Lord gave me) with another man, who unknown to me, whispered in the ear of the new pastor that I was talking about a «mystical experience.»

This time, the cycle was broken by an event that Johnson describes as a mystical experience in which God broke through and asked, «Why are you fighting me?»

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

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 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.

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.

The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»

, 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.)

The mystical tradition, with which I have great sympathy and about which I have written in the companion volume What can we Learn from Hinduism, unites believers beyond the differences of doctrines and ritual and stresses the longing to experience the presence of God.

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.

So are mystical experience and the hypostatic exaltation of which the icon is supposed to be the center or the vehicle.

Other than that, he seems very much like a regular Christian guy who's had a couple of mystical experiences, neither of which have a clear connection to his decision to don a costume.

Both our personal ideals and our religious and mystical experiences must be interpreted congruously with the kind of scenery which our thinking mind inhabits.

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.

It helps to satisfy his need for experiences in which he transcends his finitude and receives mystical life.

I see no consistent basis within the framework of Hall's own thought for asserting that this particular kind of experience is somehow «illegitimate,» that its aesthetic quality is greatly inferior to that which results from the experience of art or nature or interpersonal relationships or even of mystical contemplation.

What can be communicated are mystical ideas, that is, intellectual formulations which mystics take to be appropriate to their experience and as accurate as it is possible to be within the limits of the sensory - intellectual consciousness.

We must note, however, that it has been Western scholarship which has unraveled the depths and subtleties of the Oriental mystical vision; or, at least, it has been Western thinkers who have succeeded in translating the exotic language of Eastern mysticism into the contemporary language of Western experience.

It is a mystical, subjective experience of that reality which is beyond, and which subsumes, the physical.

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

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.

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.

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

She contrasts this mystical wonder, which enchanted people and gave them a feeling of eternal progress, with the stagnation experienced just a short boat ride away.

Since it was vocal music which inspired him, perhaps the mystical experiences were never separable from physical ones in his recollections, and his poetic accounts were a release through art of emotional needs.

Named after the soaring white sails that crown its roof, this is the perfect base from which to experience this mystical landscape.

The last two stanzas, in which the experiences of «mystical visions» and ironic disillusionment are simultaneously expressed, especially reflect Bleckner's ironic and transcendental content.

The centrepiece of the exhibition invites the visitor into a mystical experience in which the word itself is the work of art that transforms understanding through an initiatory process.

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.»

Walter Smith, «Ad Reinhardt's Oriental Aesthetic,» Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Summer / Fall 1990, p. 43, sees Reinhardt's black paintings as imparting «a sense, rather than a depiction, of the Buddhist mystical state known as sunyata, the great void, or emptiness, the direct experience of which is the enlightened state of nirvana.»

On view are two new installations, Totality and Phoenix, both of which make use of astronomical research to create a mystical, contemplative experience.