Category Archives: Numinous/Mystical Experience
MindSpace
MindSpace III, originally uploaded by XhyraGraf. Morning, the first day of her 31st year-Kenmore, Scotland: As she quietly contemplated the water in the loch, something familiar caught her eye. “Well here it is,” she thought. “Right here in this moment.” … Continue reading
James-Mysticism
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html Lectures XVI and XVII MYSTICISMÂ One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness; so for us, who in these lectures are treating personal experience as the exclusive … Continue reading
Mysticism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/#1: 1.1 The Wide Sense of Mystical Experience In the wide sense, let us say that a mystical experience is: A (purportedly) super sense-perceptual or sub sense-perceptual experience granting acquaintance of realities or states of affairs that are of … Continue reading
Specious Present
The experience and perception of time Also reread paper on tensed beliefs What is ‘the perception of time’? But what sense or senses do we use when perceiving time? The very expression ‘the perception of time’ invites objection. Insofar as … Continue reading
Axis Mundi
Some pictures can be found on Ana Galano’s Blog [eventually I'll get my act together and all my artwork, etc. will be consolidated and uploaded to this site]. Here is a bad snapshot of one side of it at my … Continue reading