Explore: Mystical Experiences

introspection. Experiences like visions, near death experiences and parapsychological phenomena are excluded from this definition of "mystical experience," but

religious experiences. Popularly, mysticism is used synonymously with mystical experience, a neologism which refers to an ecstatic unitive experience of becoming

similar to reports of mystical experiences. According to Deikman, and authors from a number of disciplines, psychotic experience need not be considered

Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for

criticized the idea that psychedelic experiences lead to "enlightenment experiences". In response to The Psychedelic Experience he wrote: While I was at Starwood

subjective loss of self-identity, sometimes interpreted as mystical experiences. Psychedelic experiences lack predictability, as they can range from being highly

Although the experience is usually brief in time, there are records of such experiences lasting several days or even more, and of recurring experiences of ecstasy

states are called mystical experiences. Some scholars have proposed that many of the qualities of a drug-induced mystical experience are indistinguishable

consciousness. Some perennialists emphasize common themes in religious experiences and mystical traditions across time and cultures; others argue that religious

the Perennial Philosophy; that there is a commonality of experiences across all the mystical branches of the world's religions. Huxley wrote in the introduction