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A '''Mystical Experience''' is any [[Connection Event]] 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 The phrase Mystical Experience is a syncretic term for [[Connection Experience]].  
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. 
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==Syncretic Terms==
==Syncretic Terms for Connection Experience==


[[Connection Experience]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Connection Experience]]}}
[[Connection Experience]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Connection Experience]]}}


==List of Connection Events==
==See Also==


[[Connection Event]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Connection Event]]}}
[[Connection]], [[Connection Experience]], [[Connection Axes]]


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 19:43, 8 February 2019


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 States, Mystical Experience, Pure Consciousness Event, Religious Experience, Spiritual Experience, Spiritually Transformative Experience, Transcendental Experience

See Also

Connection, Connection Experience, Connection Axes

Notes

William James notes that a mystical experience is any experience that includes the following four characteristics: Ineffability, Noetic Quality, Transiency, and Passivity[1]

Further Reading

Lightning Path Workbook One: The Basics. Lightning Path Press. https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-curriculum/lp-workbooks/


References

  1. James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 330-331). Kindle Edition.