Mysticism
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- Mysticism
- Mystical experiences include an experience in which the subject is transformed and reports the loss of individuality and union with the deity
- example of Simone Weil and Boehme
- Ed Miller's five common features of mystcism
- Transcendent
- short in nature, but is very intense and has long lasting consequence on the recipient e.g. they become more religious
- Ineffable
- Not easily expressible/ explained in language
- Noetic
- The mystical experience conveys a deep truth
- Ecstatic
- It fills the soul with bliss/ peace
- Unitative
- Uniting our spiritual soul with reality
- Transcendent
- Types of mystical experience
- Unitive- removal between the individual and God
- St Paul on the Road to Damascus (Act 22) claimed to have had such an experience
- Transcendent-takes a person 'beyond' the realm of everyday experiences. Described as 'other-worldy'
- Sufism is based on focusing on a union with Allah through meditation so does have aspects of transcendental mysticism
- Ecstatic- closest the person can get to feeling what it must be like to be in the presence of God
- In Toronto Blessings services some people uncontrollably laugh hysterically, as they feel the holy-spirit
- Unitive- removal between the individual and God
- mystical ascent- the steps begin inaan eartly, mundane world but with regular practise, the individual can ascend their own reality (ladder!)
- Mystical experiences include an experience in which the subject is transformed and reports the loss of individuality and union with the deity
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