From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 22:57:46 GMT
DMB,
Sam Norton asked:
...if the central truth of mysticism is an experience?
dmb answered:
No. The central truths of mysticism ARE REVEALED in an experience.
Sam was surprized:
Again, this is a very interesting development for me. I had been under the impression that it was
the experience "as such" that you were focussed on.
dmb says:
I can't imagine where you got such an impression.
This was such a surprise that I did a search with the kind help of Mr Google, some of the results of
which follow after my signature. Perhaps I have been misreading you all this time - but given the
language that you have always used, I think it understandable.
Anyhow, if you agree that truths get revealed in the experience, presumably it's the truth which is
important, not the experience? So we can talk about truth, now, can't we?
Sam
~~~
DMB wrote Sat May 03 2003:
I'm putting the emphasis on one's personal encounter with the divine, on the mystical experience
itself. .... As Wilber puts it: It is only when religion emphasizes its heart and soul and essence -
namely direct mystical experience and transcendental consciousness, which is disclosed not by the
eye of the flesh (give that to science) nor by the eye of the mind (give that to philosophy) but
rather by the eye of contemplation - that religion can both stand up to modernity and offer
something for which modernity has desperate need: a genuine, verifiable, repeatable injunction to
bring forth the spiritual domain.
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