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

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James-Mysticism

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html Lectures XVI and XVII MYSTICISM  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

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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

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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

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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

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Wisdom found where?

Chapter VIII The Development of Wisdom At the cognitive level, which is its most basic sphere of operation, ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, thoughts, and views, so that we come to misconstrue our experience, overlaying it with multiple strata of delusions. … Continue reading

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