Unity

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A feeling of Unity with all nature and creation is a Connection Outcome.[1] A feeling of unity is also a central and defining feature of a Unity Experience, which is a type of Connection Experience.

Examples

Union > Spiritual Marriage, Union with God, Union with Reality, Unity

List of Connection Outcomes

Connection Outcomes > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union

Syncretic Terms

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Notes

The experience of unity is different than the experience of union. When one experiences unity, one feels united to nature, creation, the species, and God. When one experience union, one becomes ultimate Reality.

Pahnke cites unity as one of the primary psychological characteristics of Mystical Experience. "Unity is a sense of cosmic oneness achieved through positive ego transcendence. Although the usual sense of identity, or ego, fades away, consciousness and memory are not lost; instead, the person becomes very much aware of being part of a dimension much vaster and greater than himself. In addition to the route of the "inner world," where external sense impressions are left behind, unity can also be experienced through the external world, so that a person reports that he feels a part of everything that is (for example, objects, other"[2]

"There are moments of prayer when the soul feels itself face to face with ultimate Reality and in joyous fellowship with perfect Personality."[3]

Footnotes

  1. Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.
  2. Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.
  3. Jones, Rufus Matthew. Studies in mystical religion (Kindle Locations 181-182). Kindle Edition. "