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

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.