Sentences with phrase «what mystical experience»

While there have been many different usages, there has been a growing consensus in recent years among scholars as to what mystical experience is and its varieties.

Not exact matches

(2) Argue from your own personal [mystical] experience, tell them what «God» is really like (3) Confront all God talk: disempower both their and your own bullshit

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.

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.

He emphasizes that contrary to what people usually think, the great mystics absolutely do not confuse mystical experience with visions.

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.

He has bound himself to his word, and though he is God anyways, always, everywhere, powerful, etc., we do not seek him in self - chosen places, or in mystical experience or in what I call self - masturbation worship experience of whipping up emotions, or whatever else we come up with on our own.

He distinguishes between what he calls a «mystical idea» and «mystical experience.»

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.

I hope I am right in thinking that you have enjoyed a direct experience of God - an experience of communion with the Central Spirit of Things and have known what intensity of joy and exaltation of spirit that mystical experience brings.

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 experienWhat 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 experienwhat 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.

But what about the darker side of the artistic practice, one rooted into eerie experiences of the artist that are not easily rationalized, dealing preferably with the mystical entities and uncertain mental phenomena?