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A '''Mystical Experience''' (a.k.a. [[Connection Experience]] is any experience of [[Connection]] sufficiently above one's average daily [[Consciousness Quotient|CQ]] as to be perceived, by the individual, as a qualitatively different state of awareness/consciousness/being (Sharp, unpublished).
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A '''Mystical Experience''' is a general syncretic term used by scientists and others to refer to what the [[LP]] refers to as [[Connection Experience]].
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==Notes==
==Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience==


Mystical experiences may be positive (i.e. [[Zenith Experience|zenith experiences]]) or negative (i.e. [[Nadir Experience|nadir experiences]]).  Whether or not a mystical experience is a zenith experience or a nadir experience depends in large measure on how the individual receives the revelation/expansion/insight from the experience. Even very glorious truths and insights can be experienced with terror if the physical unit is unprepared or if the thinking processes have been corrupted by [[indoctrination]] and [[Toxic Socialization]].
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Mystical experiences may be broken down into the following experiential types, in descending order of momentousness:
 
* [[Revelation]] - a positive (zenith) or negative (nadir) insight/vision that allows comprehension of the [[Big Truths]] of creation.
* [[Awakening Experience]]/[[Initiation|Initiation]] - an experience that has a significant emotional, psychological, or even physical impact on the [[Physical Unit]]
* [[glimpse]]
* [[Peak Experience]].
* [[Insight]].


==Notes==


==Syncretic Terms==
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<sub>ns</sub> and DME<sub>s</sub>. 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."<ref>Maharaj, Ayon. “Kant on the Epistemology of Indirect Mystical Experience.” Sophia 56, no. 2 (June 2017): 313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0528-y.</ref>


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William James notes that a mystical experience is any experience that includes the following four characteristics: [[Ineffability]], [[Noetic Quality]], [[Transiency]], and [[Passivity]]<ref>James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 330-331). Kindle Edition. </ref>


==See Also==
Pahnke <ref>Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.</ref> 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.<ref>Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.</ref>


[[Connection]] | [[Connection Experience]] | [[Zenith Experience]] | [[Nadir Experience]]
Happold<ref>Happold, F. C. Mysticism: A Study and Anthology. New York: Penguin Books, 1963. https://amzn.to/2XVKnvX.</ref>: Ineffability, Noetic Quality, Transiency, Passivity, Unity, Timelessness, No Self (unity with True Self).


==Further Reading==
Perenialists are theorists, mystics, scholars who view all mystical experiences are largely identical in content. Include Huxley,<ref>Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Granada Publishing: London, 1984. https://amzn.to/2tXEQYI.
———. The Perennial Philosophy. Canada: Random House Canada, 2014. https://amzn.to/2XGmQyM.</ref>, ...


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Latest revision as of 23:44, 22 December 2022

A Mystical Experience is a general syncretic term used by scientists and others to refer to what the LP refers to as Connection Experience.

Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience

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

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 DMEns and DMEs. 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."[1]

William James notes that a mystical experience is any experience that includes the following four characteristics: Ineffability, Noetic Quality, Transiency, and Passivity[2]

Pahnke [3] 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.[4]

Happold[5]: 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,[6], ...


Footnotes

  1. Maharaj, Ayon. “Kant on the Epistemology of Indirect Mystical Experience.” Sophia 56, no. 2 (June 2017): 313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0528-y.
  2. James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 330-331). Kindle Edition.
  3. Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.
  4. Pahnke, Walter N. “Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience.” International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 1969, 149–62.
  5. Happold, F. C. Mysticism: A Study and Anthology. New York: Penguin Books, 1963. https://amzn.to/2XVKnvX.
  6. Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Granada Publishing: London, 1984. https://amzn.to/2tXEQYI. ———. The Perennial Philosophy. Canada: Random House Canada, 2014. https://amzn.to/2XGmQyM.