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Real life mystical experiences.
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has anyone had any life experiences that can only be describes as mystical?
Were there witnesses or was it a purely personal experience?
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
#14004131 - 02/21/11 09:39 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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how mystical are we talking ? walk on water float in the air? seeing a ghost? things moving all the sudden on their own?
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: demonofchaos]
#14004145 - 02/21/11 09:42 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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i dont know. i had a few really weird experiences that i cant explain away with mere coincidence and so i dub them mystical. They sure are a mystery to me.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
#14004149 - 02/21/11 09:43 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, what is your definition of a mystical experience? There are many views on such matters, but I personally believe that I have had one. It was personal in the sense that no one else could have physically been present, but I shared the experience with quite a few people.
It manifested in the form of a dream a few years back, and was so vivid that I can still recall it in full detail... I had it written down at one point, but the computer which it was stored on self destructed in a rebellious bout of hatred for its user.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: demonofchaos]
#14004163 - 02/21/11 09:45 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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i can usauly tell when im gona get a call
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: demonofchaos]
#14004179 - 02/21/11 09:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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demonofchaos said: i can usauly tell when im gona get a call
i want to fuck the chick in your avatar. that would be a mystical experience.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: RoastedPete]
#14004186 - 02/21/11 09:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have also had several mystical experiences while under heavy influence of psychedelic drugs, but not many count those as valid due to what ever backwards logic the abide by...
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
#14004204 - 02/21/11 09:50 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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A few chance encounters with some extraordinary people. Dunno if that's really counting as mystical or not, but it was definitely some magical moments. Other then that, some weird unexplainable experience stopped me from continuing heroin use. I'm sure there's a lot of mystical experiences that happen, that I just can't remember experiencing.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: demonofchaos]
#14004229 - 02/21/11 09:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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would u consider not going to the twin towers on the day they came down mystical i know somone who was suppose to be their but didnt go cause a family member was sick
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: RoastedPete]
#14004236 - 02/21/11 09:55 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've had experience that I can't explain whilst on a number of substances. I'd blame it on the substance, whether "real", or not. Conformation is invaluable when dealing with "hallucinations". It's not often specifically found.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: ModularMind]
#14004271 - 02/21/11 10:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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One night I heard what sounded like water droplets hitting the floor above me. They were all emitting different frequencies and it was kind of like listening to a really complex song.
Granted I was slightly stoned at the time but the experience seriously rattled me. Maybe I should of took note of the song. 
I haven't had an experience quite like that since.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: demonofchaos]
#14004276 - 02/21/11 10:02 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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lol @ "real"
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: Devlish2]
#14004292 - 02/21/11 10:04 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've been lying on my couch when the furnace turned off and felt it was the end of time for me.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: ModularMind]
#14004326 - 02/21/11 10:11 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I saw a ghost one time, middle of the day with a group of friends. No one could explain what happened, it's not something I think too much on, though.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: Deekay]
#14004378 - 02/21/11 10:21 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Deekay said: I saw a ghost one time, middle of the day with a group of friends. No one could explain what happened, it's not something I think too much on, though. 
I have had a similar experience but i felt a negative/malicious presents following this guy i used to hang out. it mimicked his voice, then i felt foot steps that weren't ours following us and during this i felt like a was having an internal struggle and finally asked/told myself to be strong or something and a street light turned on right over me as i completed the thought then later when he finally said something a backyard light turned off. it was fucked up.
anyway i don't hang out with that guy anymore and told him to seek a healer(I think thats why it was messing with me when i was with the guy) that was the only truely truely negative/dark feeling i have ever had in my life to that magnitude.
and i have had many a positive mystical experience on psychs where i was "cleansed"
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: RoastedPete]
#14004401 - 02/21/11 10:25 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ok so i guess i should explain a bit. i had a very powerful near fatal experience with Burgmansia when i was 16. It reshaped how i looked at the world. It was a big reason why i became so obsessed with plant teachers and by extension the shroomery.
I have the trip report that i did about it floating around here somewhere. a few years ago i was sitting in this park that i used to chill at in high school smoking a bowl with some old friends and my girlfriend at the time. There was these two buildings, the one to the right had a huge Burgmansia tree in front. in my direct field of vision with a void in between that showed the sky. I noticed a cool shimmer on a cloud that was passing through and i pointed at it and said, "Look at that cool cloud". soon as i do it changes into a smiley face, everyone sees it but i was the only one to get excited over it. It was like the universe smiled on me for seeing simple beauty in it. A few months to a year later Im hunting boletes in shasta with laska, and alan rockefellor a couple others and was relating that story while cooking a hotdog. Soon as i finish i look up and there is a heart in the sky.
i got a pic.

the synchronicity was cool and i was even more stoked this time.
then a year or so later me and laska were at the 40th anniversary of woodstock. We look around and then decide to eat lunch. Chicken of the woods in pasta. We sit in the back of the meadow with 30000 people in front of us and start to eat and smoke a few bowls.
after a bit i notice a couple of people weaving in and out of the crowd. its a clown and a dude wearing native garb. a medicine pooch around his neck and a medicine roll over his shoulder.
I thought it an interesting pair so i pointed them out to alice. No sooner than i did the man locks eyes with me and beelines straight for us. We were both like uh, are they coming over here? They sat down imediatly and started talking. We make small talk and eventually get on the subject of native art and the universe. He mentions his medicine roll and shows me. On the front it had all kinds of images of power animals. the shapes were made using the hair from each specific animal and he explaind the meaning behind them. The entire time hes talking to me the clown is about a foot from my face talking at me about something. i dont really remember. The clown was a distraction and the elder was giving me wisdom.
Eventually i related the story about how the universe smiled on me, then the synchronicity with seeing the heart as i was retelling it.
he just has this smile on his face and nwhen i finish my story then the clown says, "Whats that? and points upwards and behind me. i look and see, a pegasus, a fucking horse with wings in the sky. wtf. mind completly blown open. I looked to him again with a look of puzzled astonishment as if to ask for some sort of explaination. he just smiled and turned the medicine roll hes been making for years over and the only image on the otherside is a pegasus. WTF!
He then tells me he performed the opening ceremony for the festival and released the doves of peace that morning. Still a bit awestruck i chated with him for a bit until laska got nervous because a group of people started getting naked a few feet away so we parted to go look around a bit more.
im still waiting for our paths to cross again.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
#14004462 - 02/21/11 10:36 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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sui said: has anyone had any life experiences that can only be describes as mystical?
Were there witnesses or was it a purely personal experience?
I had an experience during meditation where I was repeating a mantra over and over in my head. The purpose of the mantra is to essentially drown out your normal thought patterns and allow an awareness to come through. As I was repeating this mantra I felt like I was sucked into myself and this incredible bliss overcame me for a few seconds. It was so powerful that I almost fell over. I don't know if anyone would consider this "mystical", but it had immense personal meaning for me. I had this afterglow which lasted some time after.
I've experienced various out-of-body experiences where I was consciously flying around my neighborhood, communicating with guides and exploring other worlds, but because the aforementioned experience occurred within waking consciousness it was more meaningful for me.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#14004595 - 02/21/11 10:57 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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telepathy, met ninjas, gurus, and shaolin monks.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
#14004607 - 02/21/11 10:59 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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i've never personally experienced anything mystical, but there are some old family stories lurking around.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: meatcakeman]
#14004613 - 02/21/11 11:00 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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meatcakeman said: i've never personally experienced anything mystical, but there are some old family stories lurking around.
well what are you waitn for. bust em out man.
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once, at the tail end of an lsd trip i was laying down near the beach with a shirt over my face with the sun beaming, with sunlight being refracted; i stared into it and then it was like i mind-hacked into a fighter pilots brain, i had the helmet on, the respirator, controls, everything, and heard commands coming in, like, "clear for take off" and some other stuff.
also manifested various weapons, swords, pistols, shotguns, etc.
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haha, i suppose. they're pretty farfetched, but i'll tell you one.
according to my mother, her paternal grandmother was the Chinese equivalent to a gypsy/psychic. during WWII and the Cultural Revolution in China and while her son (my grandfather) was at war, she would sit at her dining room table and read scriptures from a book written in ancient Chinese characters. now, why she would read these scriptures wasn't truly known. but, decades after she passed away, her daughter (my mother's aunt) found this book. luckily, she knew how to read ancient Chinese. apparently, she started reading a few scriptures from the book out loud, seated at a long dining table. based on what she told my mother and what my mother eventually told me, ghostly apparitions started to appear at every seat at this table. at that moment, she freaked out and closed the book, scared to death. the apparitions disappeared and she hid the book forever.
my mom has her own theory of all of this. she thinks that her grandmother would summon ghosts that were stuck in purgatory to protect my grandfather during the war in exchange to give them peace and allow them to pass on to the afterworld. this theory was also based on another story my mother told me, but that one is super long and far more outlandish.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: meatcakeman]
#14004735 - 02/21/11 11:18 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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good read. very plausible theory. wonder if theirs any truth to it.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
#14004736 - 02/21/11 11:18 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Man, I've got some mind-blowing stories, with demonstrable evidence. I'll give you the book when I write it.
This helped me to understand synchronicity better: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7504127#7504127
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: Middleman]
#14004780 - 02/21/11 11:25 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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interesting article thanks for posting.
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JesusGoneRogue said: good read. very plausible theory. wonder if theirs any truth to it.
i believe it 100%. my mother is not the type of person to lie. and, ever since i was little, i knew she was a little different. i wouldn't necessarily call her crazy, in the clinical sense, but she's definitely got a different thought process than the normal human being. imo, she's somewhat gifted. many times in my life, she's pretty much told me the future, and done some other oddly incredible things.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: meatcakeman]
#14004829 - 02/21/11 11:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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so whats your take on the afterlife?
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well, in physics, the conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created, nor destroyed. that means our souls, in the electromagnetic/energetic sense, have always existed. our energy has always existed. this means that even after we "die" in our world, our energy is conserved. this, enough, is the basis for the existence of an afterlife.
what the parameters of that afterlife are is beyond my understanding. but i truly believe that we don't just pass away just to die, and that's that. something goes on after we pass, something greater.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: meatcakeman]
#14005400 - 02/22/11 01:54 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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If by "real" you mean sober, I've had a few.
One was an intense encounter with a ghostly apparation. Something you would seriously see out of a movie. It happened at dusk, while I was walking home from a friends house. I was only 6 years old at the time, and I was in complete shock when it happened.
Another experience I had, that was much more meaningful to me: I was out in the desert in Idaho. I hadn't talked to anyone for about 20 days because of a "vow" I was under. I was also building my own seperate fires, cooking my own meals, and sleeping at a distance from the group. We would wake up before the sun rose, hike for the majority of the day, and then set up camp to watch the sun set.
I had just finished my meal for the night, and I was sitting by the fire contemplating things. It was dark out with no moon, so the stars were bright. I poked around in the fire with my firestick to allow it more oxygen. As I retracted my stick, a large moth flew into the hole I had created. The moth danced about, but it was trapped by the encompassing logs. I felt a stab of pain in my heart to watch the moth suffer from it's own device.
As the Moth weakened and slowly came to a still calm, freeing itself of the fire, I closed my eyes. I cannot easily describe what occured in my mind. I asked for forgiveness, and at the same time, I celebrated the life of the moth.
As soon as this thought/emotion occurred, a deep deep vibration began emanating from within me, and from all things surrounding me. It started out at so low of a frequency that I was surprised to be able to hear it. It slowly began to rise in pitch, increasing until it was at normal tones and still continuously rising. It rose to a high pitch till I felt like it could possibly damage my ears, and then it rapidly faded within a moments notice...
...and I was left there staring at the fire...and the stars.
I've never experienced that vibration since, but I hope it finds me again someday. Maybe that's the peace that we come to when we pass on.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
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One time I turned into a werewolf and fucked ghost vampire in the ass. Then we both got onto our dragons and flew to Narnia, where I fucked the Snow with and another dragon. Then me and Frodo went back to the shire to shoot craps, and Gandalf was all on my shit for some nugget, so I crippled his old ass. I'm gangster.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: Nemo_Hoes]
#14005549 - 02/22/11 02:26 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Last week I took a massive shit in the middle of the night, and when I flushed the toilet the water spun counter clockwise
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: meatcakeman]
#14005575 - 02/22/11 02:32 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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meatcakeman said: well, in physics, the conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created, nor destroyed. that means our souls, in the electromagnetic/energetic sense, have always existed. our energy has always existed. this means that even after we "die" in our world, our energy is conserved. this, enough, is the basis for the existence of an afterlife.
what the parameters of that afterlife are is beyond my understanding. but i truly believe that we don't just pass away just to die, and that's that. something goes on after we pass, something greater.
you make a very solid point with the physics argument.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
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sui said: has anyone had any life experiences that can only be describes as mystical?
Were there witnesses or was it a purely personal experience?
Yeah my were friends that were there I was on a major 6+ gram PF classic trippage and we had done other drugs also.
Anyway i walked into my room and had a full fledged conversation with my deceased grand paw I think i had a major mindfuck ego death during that trippage, I had also consumed a lot of cactii earlier that night.
My friends were worried as shit and almost called for help for me Thank god they just let me work it out by myself.
The only thing that kept me sane was Hendrix War Heroes blasting thru my Sansui sound system
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: Paw_Paw]
#14005699 - 02/22/11 03:07 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wish I could say I have experience something extremely mystical, but I haven't.
Nothing more than small things like thinking about somebody then running into them or suddenly getting a phone call after thinking about somebody I haven't talked to in awhile.
Those kind of things have made me question how much of our reality we truly perceive though.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. (moved) [Re: sui]
#14023267 - 02/24/11 11:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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This thread was moved from The Pub.
Reason: moving to get different feedback
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. (moved) [Re: sui]
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Not satisfied with us pubbers, eh?
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. (moved) [Re: Acaterpillar]
#14023289 - 02/24/11 11:46 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think most people hanging out in this forum do so based on having had various experiences that cannot be conventionally explained. 
sui, that's awesome that your experience was prompted by Brugmansia... I the nightshades.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. (moved) [Re: deCypher]
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deCypher said: I think most people hanging out in this forum do so based on having had various experiences that cannot be conventionally explained. 
sui, that's awesome that your experience was prompted by Brugmansia... I the nightshades.
i thought the symbolism of having the burgmansia tree right there when i saw the happy face was interesting.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: sui]
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sui said: has anyone had any life experiences that can only be describes as mystical?
Were there witnesses or was it a purely personal experience?
True mysticism will require a common vocabulary. I prefer to use the writings of Ken Wilber, who very carefully discriminates between physical, psychic, subtle, causal and non-dual. Then he subdivides, usefully, in order to accommodate all manner of inner experience.
Reading over the responses, it is clear that most people do not understand what mysticism is, and they include all kinds of psychic and paranormal events under the rubric mysticism. Evelyn Underhill aptly defined mysticism as the art of Union with Reality. There are lesser religious experiences - visionary experiences - but form and sound/voices still persist. Mystical experiences occur in gradations, but the more profound the experience, the less the personality of the experiencer is present to it. That means, the egoic mind which refers back to the body, mind, emotions, sensations, and memories of the subject. What IS present in mysticism is a thinning of the boundary between subject and object, both of which are fields of awareness. So in mysticism, communion of a subject with the object has its consummation in mystical unity. Usually, when such an experience is verbalized as in Jesus' "I and the Father are One," or his Arabic follower al-Hallaj, who similarly declared "I am the Truth," or the German Meister Eckhart who said, "The eye through which I see God, is the eye through which God sees me," the speakers are put to death for blasphemy, historically speaking. In India, the culture understands such formulations. The dualistic West does not.
I have been blessed with a few life-changing experiences that can be categorized as mystical. Asamprajnata Samadhi is probably high Causal Plane, according to Yoga (and Wilber). That experience from 1974 has supported me in my depth since that event. There have been other types of experiences that I am categorizing in the book that I work on during my summer vacations. None of the experiences deemed parapsychological (e.g., telepathy) are in any way categorizable as mystical. They belong to the psychic domain. Astral projection (OOOBEs) belong to subtle realm experiences, and are not mystical either. These categories derive from classic Yoga, but Wilber has made them more accessible. There are classic writers on this from Underhill, William James, Starbuck, R.M. Bucke in the 19th century, and many in the 20th and 21st century from which similar differentiations can be found.
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To respond to the OP:
I once saw a spectral pack of wolves emerge from a woods at night once with three other people.
I once shared a dream with two other people, only one of which was aware of my presence in the dream.
I witnessed a green fireball in the sky once with one other person.
I witnessed an amber orb in the sky hanging for a long amount of time near Kokomo, IN 6 months before the mysterious Kokomo explosion.
Thats all I care to share here.
No drugs were involved.
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I will add that my other experiences fall into two catagories
1) communication both direct and indirect with what I believe is god
2) negative experiences stemming from experimenting with cerimonial magic, some of which involved the necronomicon, which some of you will undoubtedly dismiss out of hand. Walking the gates however is the equivalent of the tree of life.
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Larrythescaryrex said: 2) negative experiences stemming from experimenting with cerimonial magic, some of which involved the necronomicon, which some of you will undoubtedly dismiss out of hand.
What Necronomicon are you referring to? The one talked about by HP Lovecraft was fictional...
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: deCypher]
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I've entered OBEs through rhythmic drumming.
Experienced deep synchronistic states with nature, I've attracted wind and gained energy by stepping through natural forming rings in the earth.
After being locked in solitary confinement in a mental hospital I entered some crazy hell-like state where I was being tested in what seemed like parraelell universes. My conversations with people who worked on the other side of the door continued my twisted paradigms of reality.
Since then I've had a few but nothing as major.
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: deCypher]
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Larrythescaryrex said: 2) negative experiences stemming from experimenting with cerimonial magic, some of which involved the necronomicon, which some of you will undoubtedly dismiss out of hand.
What Necronomicon are you referring to? The one talked about by HP Lovecraft was fictional...
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Re: Real life mystical experiences. [Re: deCypher]
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deCypher said:
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Larrythescaryrex said: 2) negative experiences stemming from experimenting with cerimonial magic, some of which involved the necronomicon, which some of you will undoubtedly dismiss out of hand.
What Necronomicon are you referring to? The one talked about by HP Lovecraft was fictional...
You said it before I could.
If there's any book out there bearing resemblance to the Necronomicon, it's probably not going to actually be called the Necronomicon. But I'd be interested to hear Larry's explanation. I don't want to shoot something down before hearing it in full.
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