Have you had a mystical experience?

[roger1440]

If so please describe the experience and explain what you think brought it about.

General Characteristics of Mystical Experience

Mystical experiences are marked by all or some of the following feelings/insights.

• A sense of unity or totality
• A sense of timelessness
• A sense of having encountered ultimate reality
• A sense of sacredness
• A sense that one can not adequately describe the richness of this experience

 

[Student of X]

Depending on how widely or how narrowly one defines 'mystical experience', I've had many or a few. They were brought about by various means ranging from entheogens to Divine Grace to fasting.

 

[Storm]

I have. The details, however, are intensely personal.

 

[roger1440]

Depending on how widely or how narrowly one defines 'mystical experience', I've had many or a few. They were brought about by various means ranging from entheogens to Divine Grace to fasting.

Please explain. I'll ask you to define since you had so "many".

 

[Student of X]

Please explain. I'll ask you to define since you had so "many".

What is it you want me to explain?

 

[roger1440]

What is it you want me to explain?

Everything, as of yet you haven't said anything.

 

[Me Myself]

I tend to see auras... never seen color though (well, actually, once but it was only flashy and never again)

When I am really calmed I naturaly see this transparent things around people, and how they are different than the things around objects. It´s hard to say.

 

[Student of X]

Everything, as of yet you haven't said anything.

'Everything' is asking a bit much...don't you think? My first mystical experience was when I was a kid and my latest was last week. In between is enough to fill a book. There is simply no way for me to tell you 'everything'. I don't even know where to start.

Is there something in particular you want to know about mystical experiences?

 

[roger1440]

I tend to see auras... never seen color though (well, actually, once but it was only flashy and never again)

When I am really calmed I naturaly see this transparent things around people, and how they are different than the things around objects. It´s hard to say.

Are you saying being "really calmed" brings this experience to happen? Tell me more please.

 

[roger1440]

'Everything' is asking a bit much...don't you think? My first mystical experience was when I was a kid and my latest was last week. In between is enough to fill a book. There is simply no way for me to tell you 'everything'. I don't even know where to start.

Is there something in particular you want to know about mystical experiences?

Explain what you had experienced.

 

[Storm]

Explain what you had experienced.

Try narrowing it down.

 

[Me Myself]

Are you saying being "really calmed" brings this experience to happen? Tell me more please.

More or less.

Not much I can tell beyond what I have. Yes, being calmed, but it is hard to define, it´s not just not being angry, is being calmed in a way that feels deeper.

 

[Student of X]

Explain what you had experienced.

I experienced that which people call the Divine.

 

[roger1440]

Try narrowing it down.

What is so hard to understand. As of yet you have told me nothing. Read your own answers to my question.

 

[Storm]

What is so hard to understand. As of yet you have told me nothing. Read your own answers to my question.

All I said was that the details were personal. But the field is broad. A more specific question may yield better results.

 

[HerDotness]

I tend to see auras... never seen color though (well, actually, once but it was only flashy and never again)

When I am really calmed I naturaly see this transparent things around people, and how they are different than the things around objects. It´s hard to say.

I've worked with auras myself, and I agree that seeing them can really feel mystical and awesome in the original sense of that word---giving one a feeling of awe and wonder.

I can actually see auras better if I'm near an ocean. A professional once told me that being near a large body of salt water can aid seeing auras because our bodies are mostly water. There was something else about saltwater triggering the ability to see them, but I forget what else she said...sheesh! That was only about 30 years ago!

A good place to practice seeing auras can be sitting near the back of a church during a service. People won't notice you staring at the backs of heads, and I found I could see more that way, oddly. Plus, church services tend to be focused upon the Divine and are peaceful.

 

[HerDotness]

All I said was that the details were personal. But the field is broad. A more specific question may yield better results.

I agree wholeheartedly, Storm.

Does the OP want to know about New Age mysticism at all, for example? There's plenty of that I could talk about.

Or is it more Christian mysticism such as St. Teresa of Avila experienced?

Or trance/meditative states of other faiths altogether?

And then, there are lots of mystical elements to some occult practices...etc. to you-name-it