Mystical Experience

• Connection
  • Physical Unit
  • Connection
  • Toxic Socialization
  • Disconnection
  • Healing
  • Authentic Spirituality
  • The Work
  • The System
• Connection Framework
  • Awakening
    • Water Glass Metaphor
  • Accountability
  • Atonement
  • Alignment
    • Alignment Rule Set
    • Steering Emotions
    • Creation Template
  • Activation
  • Ascension
• Connection Practice
• Connection Appliance
  • TOSAS
• Connection Supplement
• Connection Manual
• Connection Event
  • Connection Type
  • Connection Challenge
• Connection Outcome
• Connection Pathology
  • Double N Mysticism
  • Flooding
  • Egoic Bloating
  • Egoic Explosion
  • Egoic Deflation
  • Egoic Collapse

A Mystical Experience is a general syncretic term used by scientists and others to refer to what the LP refers to as Connection Experience. The term is generally used to refer to a powerful connection experience with significant cosmological contebnt.

Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience

Connection Experience > Exceptional Human Experience, Holotropic Consciousness, Mystical Experience, Pure Consciousness Event, Religious Experience, Spiritual Experience, Spiritually Transformative Experience, Transcendental Experience

See Also

Connection, Connection Experience, Connection Axes

Notes

Immanuel Kant distinguishes between Direct Mystical Experience (DME) and Indirect Mystical Experience (IME). DME is "direct experience of supersensible entities through a special faculty of non-sensible intuition." IME is "(IME) The indirect experience of a supersensible entity through the perception of something sensible—such as an image or a feeling—that is caused by that supersensible entity." DMEs may be distinguished between DME_ns and DME_s. DME Non Sensible is "The direct experience of a supersensible entity by means of nonsensible intuition" while DME Sensible is "The direct sensible experience of a supersensible entity that has assumed a physical form."

William James notes that a mystical experience is any experience that includes the following four characteristics: Ineffability, Noetic Quality, Transiency, and Passivity

Pahnke says mystical experience has nine dimensions which are/may be present during a mystical experience. These are unity, transcendence of time and space, positive mood, sense of sacredness, noetic quality (i.e. Noesis, paradoxicality, alleged ineffability, transiency, and persisting positive changes. Pahnke provides the Pahnke Mystical Experience Questionnaire to identify/measure mystical experience.

Happold: Ineffability, Noetic Quality, Transiency, Passivity, Unity, Timelessness, No Self (unity with True Self).

Perenialists are theorists, mystics, scholars who view all mystical experiences are largely identical in content. Include Huxley,, ...

Further Reading

Mike Sosteric Lightning Path Workbook One: The Basics. Lightning Path Press. https://www.patreon.com/posts/lp-workbooks-and-91290808

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