#mystical experience

[geopsych]

I have to send you a thank-you note after your posts of mystical experiences this morning — in 2019, you posted a quote about the mystic experience of nature from a website, and in exploring that website I discovered my first resources in mysticism and finally an explanation of what I’d been experiencing my entire life. Following that little thread lead me to the remarkable place my life is now, but it began with a clicking a link on a post of yours, so I am profoundly grateful for your presence here.

(Also, I live an hour or so north of you in PA, so appreciate your photography of our landscape as well!)

Peace and blessings to you this day and always.

Thank you for this, very much. I had to wait a while to answer because I had to let my thoughts process. This is such a good example of the kind of random effects and coincidences that have happened to me in connection with these childhood moments, the post you saw being just a link in the golden thread that was leading you to some part of your journey. The ways I came to think and write about those experiences were full of little threads leading from one thing to another, sometimes almost sideways or something catching my attention as it was barely brushing by, other times being beaten over the head until it got through my thick skull, oh! I guess I'd better look into this. The childhood moments, when you have them, come with the vision or conviction that you're a part of everything and it's all connected and then it goes on through your life demonstrating that in subtle and not so subtle ways. And each time it happens we have the choice to brush them off or else to allow our version of the world to include that bit of magic, to keep an awareness that something bigger and more wonderful is going on here even when we can't see it. I was fortunate to have spent time with descendants of indigenous people here, the Lenape people for whom this was a sacred homeland and spending time on the landscape with them permanently changed the way I understand it, in ways that would be hard to put into words but it has affected what I notice. I think all along I have been, not altogether on purpose, trying to take pictures that show the potential of the landscape as a source of mystical experience, to show places as having a hint of mind and spirit as well as celebrating the beauty and life I see. This blog started as a place to store my quotations and then the pictures followed sort of as illustrations to go with them, as if to say "This is the land that can give you an otherworldly experience, no chemicals necessary." Sorry! I have wandered far afield from your message! Thank you for writing. 💚

#ask #mystical experience #@scobbe #long post #psychoactive landscape #landscape #pennsylvania

[turiyatitta]

The Convergence of Imagination and Divinity

Understanding the OnenessIn spiritual exploration, a question often arises, echoing through the corridors of our deepest inquiries: “How can we assert that everything is an embodiment of the divine?” This question, at its core, challenges us to delve into the paradoxical nature of reality and the divine, prompting an examination of where imagination and spiritual truth converge.The notion that…

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#divinity #Imagination #Mystical Experience #Non-Duality #reality #Spiritual Journey #Spirituality #Unity #universe

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

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I once constructed a theory that as soon as a travel network was complete, it became obsolete: when canals were done, railroads came in; when railroads were done, highways came in. When the interstates were nearing completion, I expected another change — perhaps people working at home on a computer network. Oh, yes — when sailing vessels were perfected in the Clipper ships, steam came in; when passenger liners were perfected, air travel killed them. Where and how do we go from here?

Mystical experience: once one knows the reality is there, one is not impatient to repeat it, knowing it will happen again when one is ready. It is always there.

On a country weekend, lying in a field contemplating profound puzzles, I heard the voices of people climbing trees along a lane bordering the field. A man on the ground shouted, “Come on! I want to take your picture!” and a moment later, “Come on! Let’s make ourselves visible so we can record this thing!”

I laughed and thought, so that’s the reason for physical reality: to make ourselves visible and record this thing.

[The Cosmic Airdrome :: BY THADDEUS GOLAS :: OCTOBER 1990]

[excerpt from "Alive On all Channels]

#Ian Sanders #quotes #transcendental #hide and seek #The Cosmic Airdrome #Thaddeus Golas #Alive on All Channels #mystical experience #contemplation #the Sun magazine

[brother-hermes]

MEDITATION AND THE MOON

There’s a fair amount of what some would call Magick to my spiritual path. Seeing life as cyclic in some ways means respecting the cycles of seasons. No one needs a calendar to achieve this sort of practice. All they have to do is look up into the night sky and pay attention to the cycles of the moon. One finds it very easy to practice certain meditative techniques on rotation as result. We… click the link for more.

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#alchemy #archetypes #esoteric #esoteric christianity #god is within #how to #inner peace #inner transformation #inner wisdom #looking within #Magick #meditation #meditative techniques #moon #mystical experience #mysticism #names of God #occult #personal experience #philosophy #questions #spiritual journey #spirituality #Tetragrammaton

[theinwardlight]

#quaker #quakerism #ordinary experience #everyday life #sacramental #mystical experience #society of friends

[fraterzigmund]

Practical Occultism: The Dangers of Chasing Mystical Experiences

Many people are attracted to descriptions of intense, life-altering mystical experiences and go chasing after them through a variety of methods, many of which are easily available to the public. Today, I’m going to talk about the dangers and pitfalls of going after and having these profound experiences that are not readily apparent to the would-be seeker.

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[jannattravelguru]

#Sahasralinga #Karnataka #Divine Carvings #Shivaratri Festival #Sacred Heritage #Short Film #Spiritual Journey #Lord Shiva #Nature And Devotion #Mystical Experience #Hindu Tradition #Explore The Divine #Sacred Artistry #Shorts Video #Travel Karnataka

[nevillegoddardsonofabdullah]

Neville Goddard | A Mystical Experience Rare 1960 Lecture

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[logos-of-experience-and-truth]

Podcast Transcript - What Does Unlocking the Mysteries Mean?

Podcast Transcript - S3EP25 - What Does Unlocking the Mysteries Mean?

Audio and Show Notes Welcome back to the Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast, where I work towards unlocking the mysteries of the Beatific Vision of God. So, I want to explain that just a little bit more in depth. . . that exact sentence of unlocking the mysteries of the Beatific Vision of God. I've already touched on that in the previous several episodes, but let's try and combine them entirely into a. . . Why do I want to unlock these mysteries of the Beatific Vision for myself? What does this do? What does this cause? What will this bring me? Obviously, if you're unlocking something, it's because it is locked. In our mind, our mind is locked. Our minds are entrapped. Our minds are conditioned in a certain way to be a certain way, to think a certain way, to output a certain way, to react and feel a certain way. How does one change this? So, the modern method of this is psychology, therapy, and unfortunately heavy medication. So, the ancient way of this was through the mysteries. That's a very negative stance right there, I'm not saying that psychology and therapy are not important things. I personally have never done any of that. I've never taken any psychological medicine. I've never been to any therapy. People have said I should at some point throughout my life because of what I talk about and think about and that it sounds pretty wacky-tacky to some people, but I know that my mind is pretty sound, I've just had a goal of seeking, finding, and understanding God. As wacky-tacky as that may be, especially in today's world, that's what was important to me, and it didn't matter what anybody thought of me in the pursuit of this. So, unlocking the mysteries of the Beatific Vision of God. There was a time, a long time ago, when the pursuit of the mysteries could only be qualified if some type of a vision occurred. I'm not sure if that ever did go away? When I was growing up. . . I mean, I can't say I really was Christian, right? I know I talked about this somewhere else, but, you know, it was that Christianity because my parents are taking me. It was that kind of an idea, the Hispanic way of you are Catholic because your parents were Catholic, and you just say you are Catholic even if you're not really Catholic. It's a very negative way of saying it, I am not saying every Hispanic or every Catholic thinks in that way, but when you look at some of the metrics that they have when it comes to different surveys, it might be kind of like that, right? I mean, I mean. . . many people say that they are Christians, but can you actually say they are? I mean, that has been the great criticism of Christianity from other religions. I'm thinking of Gandhi, and he was asked about Christianity, and he said, “look, if more Christians acted like Christ, I would be Christian in an instant.” And he is like, “Because you guys aren't acting like Christ, so why do I want to be Christian?” That is that criticism when it comes to that, but, you know, it is very valid, very warranted, very difficult for somebody especially in modern times seeking to be Christian. But again, it is. . . what are you seeking when it comes to Christianity? Are you just seeking some type of a community, some type of social thing, or are you actually seeking an experience of God? Who talks about seeking an experience of God? I've mean just thinking about it. . . yeah, I am hearing myself as I am talking, and I know I sound completely bonkers and yet this literally was the purpose of the mysteries in the ancient world. This was the purpose of early Christianity. . . was to provide and produce some type of an experience with the individual, with the practitioner. I mean this was the purpose of the Eucharist. If you read some of the old Desert Father stuff. . . It is a collection of. . . after Theodosius does his edict in like 380 whatever and the Roman world becomes Christian—becomes Catholic—various people wander out into the desert in Egypt, and it is the beginning of monasticism, essentially. And there were different levels of this. There were some that were just kind of in their little enclaves, so you know what we would think of as a monastery. But then there were others who said, “I'm going out and living in a cave in the desert,” and that is why they are called the Desert Fathers. But the entire purpose of this desert experience was to become one with Christ, and this occurred in some type of an experience. Depending on the monk, the practitioner. . . however it happens and however it occurs, and that's kind of the mystery of does doing these practices instantly bring about an experience? Or is there some type of a blessing that brings about this experience, right? So that's kind of the difficulty of knowing is this something that can happen? Is there an actual method or process to unlock this, or is it still some type of a blessing that occurs from the invisible and in our sense in the divine world—does God have to bless us, right? And that is what is written in the catechism . . . is that this is a free gift that God gives to us. The entire purpose of these mysteries was to provide some type of an experience to teach these mysteries. One of the Desert Father stories that I liked the most was one of the monks was suddenly doubting that the Eucharist was the actual body and blood of Christ. A very common thing in today's Christianity if you are here in the West and you have come across any Protestant stuff, right? It is not actually the body and blood of Christ; it is just bread and water. It's like, ok . . . so this was tackled by these Desert Fathers back in like 400 AD out here in the desert and so, this monk is doubting this, and his brothers are like, “No, no, you got to believe in it, you got to pray on it, you got to pray,” and he's like, “Nope, Nope, Nope. I am not taking it until I see or have something that confirms this, I just ain't. I don't believe in this.” And he goes to church at some point, and the priest is up there, and he is doing the sacrifice of the bread and the wine, but this monk is for some reason seeing an actual flesh and blood baby and he starts freaking out like what is going on here, cause now a knife gets brought out . . . It is like this really gruesome story. And the point is that he saw some kind of a vision that confirmed this is why it is bread and wine because it is the physical . . . it is the body and blood, but you are not going to eat the body and blood in the physical form. It is like a spiritual thing. It is something else. It is something deeper, something more mysterious. But this is how it is. And so, this is why the belief factor is in it. And so . . . Anyways, the point of it is that it is some type of an experience is what occurs that convinces this monk in this Desert Father story that the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ. So, these mysteries were meant to create some type of an experience to confirm. That's literally the entire purpose of them in the ancient world and like I said, I'm not saying that this doesn't exist anymore it’s just when I've read any of the current self-help stuff or when I was reading this ten to fifteen years ago, the entire purpose of it was like I need like, greater inner peace, I'm trying to, I don't know, do law of attraction type of stuff. I am trying to bring money into my pockets. I am trying to, you know, have a meteor of diamonds coming down in front of me and suddenly I am filthy rich, and you know, it is stuff like that. And you know whether that is important to you or not is entirely up to you. I am not saying not to. I am not saying that there aren't synchronous type of things that I have experienced . . . I . . . I talk a lot about that kind of stuff. But the purpose of the mysteries, the purpose of meditation—the ultimate purpose at least—is to essentially cleave a canyon in the mind so that you are pushing aside the left and the right—exactly what we were talking about—to move towards Logos, to move towards the Christ, the narrow path. As long as you are analyzing good or evil, left or right—I think we talked about this in the previous episode—as long as you are still thinking about these types of binary, dualistic type of things, then you are being controlled by them in your very mind. And so, cleaving asunder all of this to seek and find Christ, the truth of Christ, the truth of that, and obviously even that brings in some binaries of truth versus false, real versus not real, right. So, you are kind of dealing with these types of things and the way to deal with that is when you really start asking yourself: what is real? What is truth? Those hard, ancient Socratic type of questions of well, what is real? And that is something else I speak a lot about in terms of the maya and understanding the neurological aspect of this, of what's occurring in the mind. What do you see when you see and how is what you are seeing produced to give you what you are seeing? And is that anything that you are doing consciously or is it occurring entirely on its own? And that is the maya since you are not actually consciously telling yourself to listen to this. If you are listening to this, you are listening to it and somehow your brain is interpreting all the words in an instantaneous manner. But you may not be understanding it the way I understand it. You may not be understanding the meaning of it as I understand it and that is a level of filtration in your mind and brain that is occurring on its own. And I can only do so much to try and impart these mysteries and the knowledge of these mysteries onto you. But your pursuit of them is something entirely different. Your contemplating them is entirely different, your thinking and seeking to understand them and if your desire is to cleave a Grand Canyon in your mind so that you can walk through your mind safely and peacefully and find your actual and true self . . . that is the unlocking of the mysteries of the Beatific Vision of God. And the Beatific Vision itself of course, as I stated, I cannot really say whether your constant meditation will bring it about or not. There are many different examples . . . I was just . . . I read some story with some Buddhist monk from . . . I don't know long ago. He was trying to teach enlightenment to somebody, and he kept telling this student look, “You've already reached it. Why are you unhappy?” And I guess the guy had told him, “You know, well, I wanted a family. I wanted a house. But, you know, I came in search of this, and I am miserable.” And so, the teacher finally just bought this guy a house, and was like, “Dude, go live in the house and be happy and be enlightened.” And that was what the guy did. You really have to know what it is you are seeking and that can be difficult, especially if you are utterly trapped in the mire of your own mind and if you are utterly distracted by everything that the world is distracting you with, and if you have never questioned these types of things. So hopefully by listening to this, your mind is now questioning these different types of things if you have never even thought of them before. But this is the reason, A: why the mysteries existed . . . this is the reason, B: why they were hidden from the majority of people. As I said, they used to be the possession of the elite and they still kind of are because you really have to dig through absolutely everything on the Internet to sit here and want to listen to something on Logos, right? Or unlocking the mysteries of the Beatific Vision of God. I mean, if you have gotten this far, then you have probably been able to penetrate your own mind and thoughts and all the distractions that exist in the world to distract you and that is quite an achievement. But to dive deeper into that requires a different level of focus and meditation of cleaving through and letting go of the left and the right, of finding that middle ground. That was one of the noble truths of the Buddha, for instance, because that is when and where equilibrium is, when you can stand above and be beyond the left or the right . . .the wide-open path . . . having found the narrow path in understanding that finding that narrow path, finding that Logos within your own mind, within your own self, that is the finding of Christ within you, because made in the Image of Christ . . . that is the Image of Christ and the Image of Christ is some weird type of reflection of Christ in reality. And Christ being the Mind of God is the creator of that. And that is when you get into the whole language from the Gospel of John of, “I am in you, and you are in me, and I am in the Father and together we are in you.” That is the knowledge of that. That is the understanding of that. And if you can get to that, if you can understand that the path might be a little bit easier to get to. That is what unlocking these mysteries of the vision are and what I am hoping to achieve in aiding you on your spiritual path. I will leave it at that. Until next time.

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[manicpixieangel444]

𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓫𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮 ˚୨୧⋆.˚✧

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[geopsych]

“Many people remember exactly where they were when that ecstatic feeling of oneness washed over them, and feel a special intimacy with that place. We return to these places, physically or in our minds, for centering, as renewal for our values, and are reminded that, far from being alone in a sick and evil world, we are beloved by a divine and beautiful one.”

From an essay on childhood mystical experiences, which are more common than you would think, especially among people who were around nature when they were children.

#beloved by a divine and beautiful world #childhood mystic experience #mystical experience #childhood mystical experiences #golden moments #quotations

[bruhstation]

I've rewatched king of the railway and some of the ulfstead castle-centric episodes lately. expect a certain trio to arrive sometime soon

#zin.txt #I've been cooking something crazy for them. KOTR ARC AND MORE OF LADY'S EXPERIMENTS ARE COMING TO CASA TIDMOUTH #had to pace around my room. ollie if you're reading this do NOT act strange like that one gif of the mystical tree

[theinwardlight]

When I was put into that [prison], the Lord's power and presence did so fill my heart, that I Sung for joy, to the admiration of those that put me in.

Thomas Briggs, early Quaker, who was arrested after preaching in Manchester, 1685

#quaker #quakerism #sing #faith #christianity #society of friends #sufferings #persecutions #thomas briggs #joy #mystical experience

[castielcommunism]

there’s something very sweet about the fact that femininity is fascinating to dean. like he always seems transfixed by it. I don’t mean sexually I mean like anything that he mentally categorises as feminine is tantalising to him. and obviously this has a lot to do with his dad forcing him to be the perfect macho son, so as a consequence dean thinks watching certain movies makes you a girl or whatever. he doesn’t have a very coherent definition of femininity aside from “shit I’m not allowed to do” so you end up talking about it in these very coarse and rudimentary terms. and like the sting of dean thinking it’s gay to drink a smoothie is usually soothed by the fact that he WANTS to drink that smoothie so so so bad but the spectre of his father looms large over his life. it’s not so much genuine animus as it is a defence mechanism against punishment from his dad, because deep down dean really wants to just be himself but he can’t. but idk it’s just very endearing watching him privately marvel at what is by all accounts pretty mundane stuff most of the time, like pop music or glittery fabric. he gets that little sparkle in his eye you know

#dean.txt #dean studies #also generally why I’m not personally a fan of transmasc readings of dean #like obviously you can be a feminine trans man and that’s perfectly valid #but masculinity seems so torturous for dean and femininity seems like this fascinating mystical thing #that he becomes bewitched by the moment he’s confronted with it #which is so outside the realm of my own experience with transness #again not universe this is just my own personal relationship to it #*universal #like I read dean as gnc / trans ish in some way just like not transmasc u know #idk. anyway it’s very sweet

[maxsix]

#song mingi #mingi #ateez #ateez mingi #maxsixgif #tw: flashing lights #tw: flashing gif #tw: eyestrain #see now this man #this man i edit with Interstellar in the background #because it is my favourite Zimmer ost by far #it is religious and divine and mystical and euphoric and profound and deeply moving ok #and i imagine that's what it'd be like to experience Song Mingi

[logos-of-experience-and-truth]

Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast: Season One Summary

Ten Episode Summary of Season One of the Podcast This summary of the first season of the Logos of Experience and Truth Podcast serves several purposes. It is meant to make it easier to understand the contents of an entire seven hours of audio material and to give listeners a way to sift through the many parts where I wander in and out of tangents and subjects from one paragraph to the next. Here is an outline to make the process of understanding each episode better. Timestamps: - Episode One: Introduction and the Ascension to the Temple of the Father (00:48) - Episode Two: Jupiter in the House of Libra (01:56) - Episode Three: Beatific Vision and Stages (02:24) - Episode Four: The Indescribability of God (02:55) - Episode Five: The Logos of God (03:25) - Episode Six: The Image of God (04:58) - Episode Seven: The Self and Not Self (06:10) - Episode Eight: Truth or Fiction (08:11) - Episode Nine: Pascal’s Wager (09:52) - Episode Ten: Fertile Soil (10:38) Read the full article

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