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| In the west it is called mysticism, cosmic consciousness,
transpersonal development etc In the east it is called enlightenment, samadi, knowledge of the way etc There is more to it than meets the jaundiced modern eye |
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Two quotes from the inimitable pragmatist William James (1842-1910) captures the flavour
| Religion - the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider divine. | Medical materialism finishes up St Paul by calling his vision on the road to Damascus a discharging lesion of the occipital cortex ... and snuffs out St Theresa as a hysteric. St Francis of Assisi as an hereditary degenerate. |
Whatever may or may not lie behind states of higher consciousness it is inarguable that those who experience them behave differently as a result. For this reason alone they are worth investigating.
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| Essence of Faith - A sister site containing a collection of short articles pointing to the singularity of the mystical experience ie it is in essence the same no matter when or where it occurs. |