Your Experiences - Mystics

[The Sum of Awe]

Hey mystics, I was wondering, can you describe your experiences the best you can?

Whether it was an OBE, NDE, etc. I'm hoping to see mystics' experience and what it is like to have one.


I think I will enjoy reading your experiences, no need to make it interesting, describe it the best you can, be honest.

 

[Hermit Philosopher]

Dear The Sum of Awe,
Mystical experiences cannot truly be described without the aid of metaphors which sadly, to one yet to encounter the state of mind in question, are much too misleading.

What I can say is that what you are looking for is to be found within and, though it will at first seem to exclude the outer world entirely, it will leave you with a sense of - if only for seconds - having understood the surprising simplicity behind this most complicating life.

I would myself perhaps emphasise that the beauty of mysticism lay not so much in its experience – which, as said, is personal and rhetorically unsharable - as in the changes it causes in our way of looking at and being in the world. For, with an increased love for further comprehension, selfless good-will and a genuine sense of humility towards others, it is through our interaction with the whole, that it contributes to a better place for all

Wishing you much contentment and wisdom through life,
Hermit

 

[Wombat]

Hey mystics, I was wondering, can you describe your experiences the best you can?.

Yes.
My daughter was born then wrapped then handed to me.
She slept that night upon my chest.

Everything changed.

Beyond that.
Words are too oft but vague shadows of meanings.

 

[Student of X]

Hey mystics, I was wondering, can you describe your experiences the best you can?

Whether it was an OBE, NDE, etc. I'm hoping to see mystics' experience and what it is like to have one.

I think I will enjoy reading your experiences, no need to make it interesting, describe it the best you can, be honest.

Back in 2010 on the solstice lunar eclipse I was taken out of my body to the Holy Dark. At least, that's what I think Christian mystics call it. I think different traditions have different names for it. It was infinite, pure, unfathomable. I was floating in a sphere, and my body was made of pure thought. It was full of stars or something. It was my soul, or my Atman or whatever. I moved by force of will. It was so amazing existing in an entirely new state of being, I can't begin to describe it.

There were lots of spheres in concentric circles and they were flashing in patterns. Somehow, I could understand them. There was also some sort of lightwave entity... I can't really describe it. It was intelligent and aware of me. It merged with me and then I was back in my body with it.

It took me a long time to get used to being in my body again, and my kundalini or chi or shakti energy or whatever was through the roof. I was in a mystical state of consciousness for days. I was in the womb of the Goddess, I was taught by Angels, and I was sharing a body with the Christ. Mystically speaking, of course. I was an egg, of sorts. It was as if, when I moved I didn't move. The universe moved around me instead.

For days I was spontaneously performing yoga that I didn't know I knew how to do, I was remembering past lives, I was shedding karma with Buddha laughter, I was manipulating cosmic energy, I was lectured by Angels and mystics of past ages. Mystically speaking, of course. Some of it I could grasp. Some of it I couldn't.

So, then God gave me a mission. Long story short I had to go on a pilgrimage to the desert. I even made a thread about it. I had vivid dreams that came true as I traveled, and they guided me to camp at holy ground in the desert, where the Christ came out of my head as a light. Mystically speaking, of course.

 

[Student of X]

Oh, and coincidentally when I was lead to a state of mystical rapture in the desert when "the Christ" came out of my frickin head, was May 21- 23rd. Back when that Harold Camping guy said the Rapture would happen. Remember? heh. :areyoucra

 

[SaintAugustine]

i do remember Harold and his wild predictions..as for mysticism, looking at the sky, a tree, feeling the breeze can be direct experience of God for a mystic. I think when St. Francis was out there talking to the birds and animals he was on a mystic high. I think that prayer, meditation can change a 35 MM view of the world to 70 MM...

 

[Student of X]

i do remember Harold and his wild predictions..as for mysticism, looking at the sky, a tree, feeling the breeze can be direct experience of God for a mystic. I think when St. Francis was out there talking to the birds and animals he was on a mystic high.

Yes, that would be what some scholars call an extroverted unitive experience. The experience is superimposed on the environment, instead of introverted in a trance or meditation or ecstasy.

I think that prayer, meditation can change a 35 MM view of the world to 70 MM...

Yes and physical conditioning with a proper diet is important too. It's important that the body be able to hold the Holy Spirit as long as possible.

But at the end of the day, Divine Grace can make all those changes in us, if she so desires. A pearl diver need not know how to swim.

 

[SaintAugustine]

Yes, that would be what some scholars call an extroverted unitive experience. The experience is superimposed on the environment, instead of introverted in a trance or meditation or ecstasy.

Yes and physical conditioning with a proper diet is important too. It's important that the body be able to hold the Holy Spirit as long as possible.

But at the end of the day, Divine Grace can make all those changes in us, if she so desires. A pearl diver need not know how to swim.

Love that last paragraph..

 

[no-body]

You have to understand everything is mystical. Everything. Everyone is having mystical experiences every second of everyday they just don't realize it.

 

[Student of X]

True. The veil can fall away from anyone's eyes at any moment.

 

[SaintAugustine]

You have to understand everything is mystical. Everything. Everyone is having mystical experiences every second of everyday they just don't realize it.

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