Sentences with phrase «mystical states of»

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

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.

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This acclimation process gives the software a chance to record your brain waves and trains you to use them consistently before it throws a series of increasingly difficult challenges at you, such as reconstructing simply via thought a fallen bridge needed for a mystical journey while a fiery sky changes hue in response to your emotional state.

Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».

Cf. Buber's important Foreword to Pointing the Way, p. ix - x, in which he states that he has included «The Teaching of the Tao» in this collection because it belongs to that «mystical» «stage that I had to pass through before I could enter into an independent relationship with being.»

It seems the world is made up of: — persons who enter a mystical state and experience oneness and tranquility — persons who have adverse reactions as their minds dissociate resulting in their experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena

May I emphasize the fact that the elements and functions coming from the superconscious, such as aesthetic, ethical, religious experiences, intuition, inspiration, states of mystical conscious - ness, are factual, are real in the pragmatic sense... producing changes both in the inner and the outer world.

Meditation became a part of my life in 1949 — long before the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi arrived in the United States with his mystical talent for gathering immense quantities of publicity and money for TM.

All mystical designations of God are lacking in his teaching, and all talk of the soul and its emotional states.

I may be a non-believer now, but I was raised Catholic, a religious minority in the US, and I know what it's like to be part of a misunderstood religion, a religion that even now, people think is weird, with the mystical aspects of Catholicism, the fact that we have a Pope who is the leader of not just the religion, but an independent state, the Vatican.

What is being spoken of here is not the state of «mystical marriage» of which so many of the great contemplative saints were writing.

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

The adjective «mystical» is technically applied, most often, to states that are of brief duration.

Christian moral thinking has accepted this and has given marriage a special blessing, surrounding it with the aura of divine approval even if it has not always realistically grasped the fact that marriage is not inevitably an ideal state and that to insist on its continuance when love is absent is to condone what in effect is legalized rape and hence hardly an appropriate symbol for the Christian idea of marriage as representing «the mystical union of Christ and his Church.»

They reveal the progression of her spiritual life through the states of the mystical espousals and mystical marriage, and most importantly God's plan for devotion to the Sacred Head.

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.

Descriptions of the mystical state as a transcendence of duality (SC 249f) and an apprehension of ultimate unity (CEW 105) agree with the peak phenomena reported by LSD subjects (RHU 13f.).

Over lunch, a philosopher and suburban dad tries to describe the highest state of mystical consciousness

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

In principle, these findings could lead to methods — call them «mystical technologies» — that reliably induce the state of spiritual insight that Christians call grace and Buddhists, enlightenment.

But he's actually been happily trapped in the timeless purgatory of the Nexus — an idyllic state of being described by the mystical Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) as «pure joy.»

Among the film composers who've incorporated the often - mystical sounds of ancient ethnic music into western civilization's more straight - laced approach to movie scoring, the creative explorations of Mychael Danna has managed to turn soundtracks into a state of Zen.

More mystical than Cory Doctorow's For the Win (2010), but for the same teen audience, this dervish of a novel features a young hacker - for - hire who becomes an enemy of the state after his computer program catches the eye of the iron - clad security presence known as the Hand.

Casa Selva is a state - of - the - art, sustainable eco-luxury home that offers a mystical experience in the heart of the Mexican jungle.

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....

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.»

He possessed a sensibility that was rooted more firmly in fine art, and while stylistically his work was closer to the «New York School» painters, his lyrical treatment of subject matter had much in common with the gentler compositions of an earlier epoch: that of the Impressionists, and with the paintings of French symbolist artist Pierre Bonnard (1867 > 1947), who endeavoured to evoke mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind via the medium of scenes from everyday life.