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Mystical Experience Flashcards

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Ineffable

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Indescribable in normal language - characteristic of mystical experience

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Feelings that accompany mystical experiences

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Bliss
Deep and lasting joy
Humility
Transformative effect on Ines behaviour and relationship with others

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W T Stace on mystical experiences

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Extrovertive mystical experiences

Introvertive mystical experiences

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Extrovertive mystical experiences

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The plurality of objects in the world are transfigured into a single living entity

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Introvertive mystical experiences

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A religious experience in which one’s sense of self is dissolved in a greater reality

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R C Zaehner on mystical experiences

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Theistic mysticism

Monistic mysticism

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Theistic mysticism

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Awareness of God in a living relationship

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Monistic mysticism

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Awareness of the soul, self or consciousness

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William James’ characteristics of a mystical experience

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Ineffable
Noetic
Transient
Passive

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Noetic

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Bestowing insight or wisdom beyond rational understanding

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Transient

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Fleeting, over within a short pace of time

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Passive

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The mystic feels unable to control the experience - they feel “taken over” by it

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Rudolf Ottos book

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The idea of the holy

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Rudolf otto on mystical experience

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Numinous
Awe-inspiring wonder
Terror
E.g. When Jesus calmed the storm - disciples felt fear

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Numinous

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A powerful and awe-inspiring experience of the divine as “other”

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How does Rudolf otto describe the concept of “numinous”?

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Mysterium - the experience is in some sense unavailable to ordinary human reason - it’s a mystery
Tremendum - experience is awe-inspiring and both attracts us and makes us feel our own inferiority as mere creatures. This leads to:
Creature-feeling - sense of ones own contingency as a created being in relation to the source of that existence

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