Sentences with phrase «mystical states»

Personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness.

It's that mystical state most athletes are lucky to achieve a few times in their careers.

Nobody has a full explanation for this phenomenon, and we are left in that very familiar mystical state: the one where we still don't have all the answers.

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.»

Science is committed by definition to empiricism, by which I mean that scientists seek to find truth by observation, experiment, and calculation rather than by studying sacred books or achieving mystical states of mind.

It denotes the relationship which she is called to have with Christ, without presuming on any special mystical state, which is a separate matter.

The Buddhist end is then something like a transitory mystical state that Christians might experience in the course of their path toward personal communion with God.

The most rigorous scientific experiment with the hallucinogen, and the first in 40 years, proved capable of producing mystical states in the laboratory safely.

Electrodes implanted in the brain that electrically stimulate specific regions are now being tested as treatments for depression and other mental illnesses; conceivably this technology also could be used to induce mystical states.

The supernaturalism and optimism to which these mystical states would persuade us may, interpreted in one way or another, be after all the truest of insights into the meaning of this life.

William James observed that mystical states, although similar to states of feeling, are also states of knowledge to those who experience them.

Whatever their experience, it is unique and relevant to them as partners, parents and family.This place Between the Worlds is the trance - like altered state where the opportunity exists to access the mystical state of transformation.

You might not reach a mystical state of mind.

But the mystical state is for many mystics not automatic or easily come by.

Using the mighty Ring of Odd Commands (that's the console to you) to enter the mystical state known as the Meditation of Talos (that's NoClip mode to you), he ventred forth to find....

Her small works draw from the worlds of dreams, mystical states and the mundane.

New Peace uses landscape as a virtual attractor to communicate a mystical state of being called Mirrorscape.