Mystical Experience

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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. 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

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]

Further Reading

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


References

  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.