Sentences with phrase «such mystical experiences»

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

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Such names as these bring us to the mystical «union of the soul with God,» as this supreme experience in prayer has been described.

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.

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.

Or you have heard it presented like this: To be a Christian you must have mystical experiences — and then a picture has been drawn of inward tumults miraculously stilled, of upheavals like a storm in summer coming to a sunset all peace and glory, so that, not having attained to such experiences or having found them elusive and fleeting, you have cried once more, I can not.

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.

The domain of religion has to do for the most part with other sorts of experience such as the sense of being forsaken, forgiveness, caring for, having courage, sensing an at - one - ness with the universe and many others, including what some call mystical experience.

In it arise whatever mystical experiences we may have, and our automatisms, sensory or motor; our life in hypnotic and «hypnoid» conditions, if we are subjects to such conditions; our delusions, fixed ideas, and hysterical accidents, if we are hysteric subjects; our supra - normal cognitions, if such there be, and if we are telepathic subjects.

This is the realm of mystical experiences, of emotional self - transcendence and of values that seem, to people who can enter such modes, to have an intrinsic and obvious rightness.

Tree of Life trailer was exquisite, and another reason to make my trip to DC to see Black Swan last weekend worth it, but I have had brief moments of panic that it will be like a Benjamin Button type experience where the first trailer presents such mystical imagery and then the film itself is a completely different tone.

Other chapters discuss such concepts as death, the afterlife and heaven; the human soul; the mystical experience of the divine; and the meaning of life.