Re: MD Contradiction? "Mystical Experience"

From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 22:34:43 GMT

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    Hi Mari,

    > Can you talk about your "mystical experience": what it is/was, when it
    > happened and how it effected your life. Did it change your thinking? etc.
    If
    > anyone else has had what they believe to be a "mystical experience" i
    would
    > like to hear the details about them as well.

    Can I ask why you want to know? I don't think there's a lot I would want to
    add, given everything else that I've said about this in my discussions with
    David. They were very important for me, but I think the 'experience' element
    in them is largely epiphenomenal, and hence I'm reluctant to focus on
    'mystical experience' rather than, say, 'journeying into God' or 'growing in
    faith'.

    The Alister Hardy centre has been collecting information on this for a
    couple of decades now, with thousands of people's experiences described.
    Link:
    http://www.alisterhardytrust.org.uk/Home/home.html

    It's been a while since I looked at their stuff, but a friend of mine who
    did some research on it concluded that descriptions of 'mystical experience'
    are culturally determined. Don't know if that's a surprising conclusion for
    you or not, or whether it is something you're interested in.

    Sam
    www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html

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