Mystical Experience Characteristics
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- Created on: 21-01-15 18:20
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- Mystical Experiences
- Passivity
- When one 'loses' control to a more powerful being
- Effects: Assuming different personality, Writing/drawing with a different hand, speaking different language.
- St John of the Cross: 'I abandoned and forgot myself...I went out from myself leaving my care'
- Ineffability
- Most common characteristic of a mystical experience
- The inibility of being able to describe the mystical experience after having one
- How can you believe something you cant describe?
- 'I wish I could give a description of what I learned but when I try to discover a way of doing so I find it impossible' - Theresea of Avilla
- Noetic Quality
- When knowledge is gained through the experience
- Brings intuitive understanding and realisation of the truth
- 'and thought: what may this be? And it answered generally thus: It is all that is made' - Julian of Norwich
- Transiency
- A mystical experience can last between a few minutes and 2 hours
- The experience doesn't last long but is life changing
- E.g. W. Somerset Maughams experience
- Passivity
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