Being a mystic means taking the direct path that leads straight to God while renouncing the many erring and astray paths. It’s finding our path in God alone and not in institutions, theologies or philosophies or human authority. — MysticMonist
a spiritual belief stating that a connection can be obtained with God or the spirits through thought and meditation. — T Clark
But really if I’m a true monist, everything already is united with God. So much so that something as mundane as a stroke to the correct part of the brain, taking LSD, or staring at a wall long enough will reveal this to pretty much anyone. — MysticMonist
So this would be the closest to the direct, independent experience I’m talking about.
But as I’ve learned in my research on psychedelics and many people pointed out in brain science, awareness of this really real isn’t spiritual or religious at all. Mysticism in a western sense is a special or hyper-spiritual, hyper-religious thing. Becoming one with God. — MysticMonist
Yogis seem to be metaphysical idealists of a sort. The common folk are limited to the material transmutations by instrumental science and the works of reason. Yogi's claim to traverse space and time (the Veil of Illusions) as if the universe was a manifestation of the mind of Atman. Ideas manifest as matter. But what's limits their miracles to such silly displays I don't know, unless how they appear to us is dependent on whether or not we are able to receive them on their terms.
All phenomena is secondary to Atman, which includes the instrumentality of thinking. Atman precedes or exists outside or is the source of Maya in some way. — Nils Loc
Because we are already in a state of union, so yes the goal is awareness. — MysticMonist
I've also asked myself what "spiritual" means to me. Well, if it's not intellectual, emotional, perceptual, or physical, what does that leave? The answer that works for me is that "spiritual" refers to awareness. — T Clark
I think spiritual refers to the "inner"; the same principle of hidden (esoteric) knowledge. Awareness is the state of conciousness where the hidden is revealed for what it is. That sounds kind of new-agey, but I think it's consistent. — Noble Dust
I think you and I are agreeing with each other. Someone, I think it was MysticMonist, said some nasty things about new agers in a recent post. He said they steal the shiny surface from whatever comes floating down the river and ignore the insight that requires a bit of digging. That's my paraphrase. The new agey guys have stolen the idea of consciousness without its substance. — T Clark
And so the reason to strive for this awareness is because it's the "real" reality? It's a pursuit after truth? — Noble Dust
Though I’m starting to feel my whole intellectual house of cards shaking.
Why was Socrates wise? Because he knew he didn’t know.
I know religion doesn’t have a monopoly on God. But I don’t know if I can really tell you that much about God if he would be freed. I definitely don’t know once God is open access why anyone would ask me about Her. — MysticMonist
Being a mystic means taking the direct path that leads straight to God while renouncing the many erring and astray paths. It’s finding our path in God alone and not in institutions, theologies or philosophies or human authority. — MysticMonist
In other words the irrational, unreasonable, fantastic path? — tim wood
The mystic essentially claims to know what cannot be known. So how does he or she know?
You're really a pitiful philosopher - here Noble Dust and I are agreeing with you on almost everything and still you lose faith. — T Clark
What’s the difference between philosophy and rhetoric? — MysticMonist
perhaps I’m not really a mystic — MysticMonist
I think I’m a God alone kinda of guy. So maybe a acestic contemplative? — MysticMonist
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