mystical experiences Flashcards
(6 cards)
James: God meets the individual…
‘on the basis of his personal concern’
James: scientists tend to…
view the world as a ‘local accident in an appalling wilderness of worlds where no life can exist’. James says religion ‘delights to dwell’ in this nature.
What does Ed Miller call mystical experiences?
‘the pursuit of a transcendent, unitive experience with the absolute reality.’
Teresa of Avila: suspension of exterior senses…
‘one perceives that the natural heart of the body is perceptibly lessened… accompanied with exceeding joy and sweetness’
Sufism: Rumi believed that..
all people are born with a yearning within them to be reunited with God.
Allah is ‘closer to you than your jugular vein’
Henry Suso on the unitive nature of mystical experience: ‘a man who is…
entirely lost in God, has passed into him and has become one spirit with him in all respects, like a drop of water which is poured into a large portion of wine.’
