Applied Mysticism
Applied Mysticism is a term used by Aldous Huxley to describe "techniques" designed to "make the most out of...transcendental experience (read Connection Experience) by encouraging action in the world.[1]
Huxley Terms
Aldous Huxley > Applied Mysticism, Final Revolution, Mind at Large, Minimum Working Hypothesis, Normal Self
Syncretic Terms
Connection Practice > Applied Mysticism, Contemplative Practice, Mysticism, Spiritual Exercises, Technologies of the Sacred
Notes
Quotes
"In Huxley’s view, the use of psychedelics should be part of a technique of “applied mysticism,” which he described to me in a letter of February 29, 1962 as
a technique for helping individuals to get the most out of their transcendental experience and to make use of their insights from the “other world” in the affairs of “this world.” Meister Eckhart wrote that “what is taken in by contemplation must be given out in love.” Essentially this is what must be developed—the art of giving out in love and intelligence what is taken in from vision and the experience of self-transcendence and solidarity with the universe."[2]
