Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience."
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Mystical Experiences
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Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual."
William James
Philosopher, Psychologist
"The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one."
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"The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work."
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