There is one particular state of consciousness that can change your life forever.
This holy moment can only be described as “ecstatic” in that your connection to life expands significantly.
In this profound state of being, you feel that life is full of beauty and sacredness – yet this feeling is not subjective, but is instead an objective phenomenon that is outside your personal self. Theologian Rudolf Otto called this experience “numinosum.” But in this article, we’ll refer to it as the mystical experience.
All throughout history, the mystical experience has been referred to as a “religious” or spiritual experience, where the few mystics that recorded their experiences reported it as a rapturous and undifferentiated sense of joyful Unity with all of existence.
In a previous article, I wrote about the experience of “Kenosis,” a word coined by Christian mystics to describe the state of “divine flowing,” and this closely mimics what it is like to have a mystical experience. In psychology the closest term that captures this mysterious state of being is Abraham Maslow’s description of “Peak Experiences,” and in nature-orientated cultures like the Australian Aborigines, mystical experiences have been called “Dadirri.”
What is a Mystical Experience?
In essence, the mystical experience is a state of being in which the personal ego (or mortal sense of self) merges with the Divine, which is limitless and infinite. Mystical experiences are temporary glimpses into our most sacred and ancient home of Consciousness. Those who undergo mystical experiences often describe feelings of bliss, ecstasy, unconditional love, interconnectedness, and Oneness with all things.
The Candle in the Dark
Perhaps the best way to elaborate the mystical experience might be with an allegory. The ancient Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta has an interesting one:
Imagine that you are in a completely dark room. You’ve been told that in this room lives a very large snake. As you sit in the room, you can see its silhouette and you feel great fear as you contemplate the potential for it to bite you at any moment. But one day there is a flash of light which illuminates the room and you see that what looked like a snake was, in reality, a rope. Although the flash of light was momentary, it gave you a glimpse of the truth. All of a sudden your long-held fear vanished entirely, and your experience of the room was never the same ever again.
This is what a mystical experience feels like: it is like a flash of truth that releases you from your limited sense of self and gives you a taste of a reality that somehow feels more real.
Plato recounts that Socrates had a similar allegory regarding the mystical experience:
Suppose that you’ve been kept chained in a cave all your life. Behind you blazes a fire, and next to you sit a row of other prisoners. All that you and the prisoners know of life is the experience of watching the shadows dancing on the opposite wall to you, and the shared interpretations of what you see. However, by chance one day, one of the prisoner’s chains breaks and he escapes into the outside world. At first, he is confused, overwhelmed, scared, but he also feels an immense sense of expansion, awe, and bliss. He is aware that he is experiencing a larger, more complete and absorbing reality than what he could see within the cave. His natural instinct is to return to liberate his fellow men, but after struggling back into the world of darkness and shadows, his attempt to enlighten his companions is met with ridicule and incredulity as they accuse him of being crazy.
To some degree, we are all prisoners in the cave of our past experiences. Any worldview becomes a cave the moment it is taken for reality.
9 Characteristics of the Mystical Experience
Every person’s mystical experience varies in length and intensity. Have you had a mystical experience? Here are a few defining characteristics:
1. Conscious Unity
The boundaries of where you perceive your individual identity to begin and end completely vanish (otherwise known as ego death). Instead, you’re left with a boundless and infinite union with all that is around you.
2. There Is No Time or Space
With a lack of a definable identity or spatial recognition, your sense of time feels infinite. You go from perceiving time from moment-to-moment as a static individual, to perceiving it as a stream of eternal present moments.
Without time space is endless.
Because your sense of identity is gone, your ability to separate “your” (now non-existent) surroundings into individual “spatial” elements also disappears.
3. Objective Reality
Without a discernible identity comes a sense of greater “objectivity” as though you’re experiencing a much more intricate and profound reality. Everything doesn’t just feel perfect, everything is innately perfect.
4. Gratitude
Most of your ecstatic feelings stem from an immense sense of gratitude. This gratitude is an overwhelming sense of awe at “your” (now non-existent) insignificance in comparison to the vastness of existence.
5. Life Is Seen As Sacred
In fact, your sense of gratitude is so vast that you feel almost undeserving of having the opportunity to experience such a miracle. You develop a new sense of respect for the sacredness of life that allows you to be here.
6. You Understand Paradox
Our sense of self or identity creates duality in our perception of reality (“I” am separate from “That”). However, the moment this separation disappears, you’re left with a non-dual reality in which your intellect finds paradox after paradox (e.g., something is both light/dark, here/absent, human/divine, limited/eternal). In truly understanding paradox, you experience mind-blowing and expansive realizations.
7. The Experience Is Indescribable
The overwhelming magnitude of emotions and intuitive understanding that you embody makes the attempt to even describe the mystical experience feel limited by language. To try and put words to it feels insulting to the depth of the experience.
8. The Experience Is Temporary
The very nature of a mystical experience is its transience. Eventually, you end up returning back to your habitual way of life, but the experience changes something deep inside.
9. The Experience Is Life-Changing
After experiencing such a state, suddenly death isn’t as scary as it used to be, and the beliefs or ambitions that you once held to be so important immediately lose their meaning. In fact, the mystical experience often awakens a thirst to try to bring as much of that experience back into our regular day-to-day lives as possible. And so begins (or deepens) the spiritual awakening process.
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The Mystical Experience Is Only A Taste
There’s a useful term in the Christian doctrine known as “Grace.” This word basically means that we receive mercy and love from the Divine because it wants us to have it, not because we have done anything to deserve it.
Many people confuse having a mystical/spiritual experience with actually cultivating a spiritual life. To me, however, these experiences are brought by grace, and our appreciation of them is directly proportionate to our development of soulful maturity.
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If the grace of a mystical experience is given to a 10-year-old child, they will no doubt enjoy the experience. But the degree in which they absorb it will be much less compared to someone who has undergone maturation – or the deep exploration of their psyche and the ability to live life from the seat of their soul.
For the child, it will be a great experience that will eventually fade and become a distant memory. But for the man or woman who has dedicated his/her life to cultivating soulful maturity, to tilling the soil of the soul, this experience becomes the seed that is prepared to blossom. This might be the very tipping point that leads to the ultimate spiritual awakening – also known as Enlightenment or Illumination, or the permanent shift in consciousness from the individual ego to the infinite Self.
Inner Work
Experiencing spiritual liberation as the goal of the spiritual path is precisely why practicing inner work and committing to the journey of soulful maturity are so crucial.
Without removing the blockages that obscure the Light of our Souls, mystical experiences have no deep or long-lasting impact on us. In other words, they just become extravagant experiences with no real substance. But by learning to integrate the profound realizations that we’ve had access to, we can experience true, long-lasting transformation. Slowly and steadily, we begin to taste the essence of eternity.
Are you interested in learning how to integrate your mystical experience? See our inner work article for more guidance on how to begin this spiritual path.
Have you ever had a mystical experience? What was it like? I’d love to hear about it below!
So, I met a stranger the craziest way on the a very sad night. It was out of character for me to even be where I was I don’t know why I trusted and reached out to him when I knew nothing of him and I’m not the type to be into men for looks and def not the type to ask if he was awake and if I could plz come over & sleep on his couch & that I was sorry Ik he don’t know me and it sounds weird but I remember he lived close and I didn’t tell him but I was in a very emotional hurt place but he said sure n it sounded like I needed some help so he sent me his address ( which from three years ago of a short talk on fb I knew he was pretty close) and I went . He was so cool and calm, asked me if I’m ok and I felt like I was and all the sudden I didn’t even want to “ vent” about what a shity thing had just got done to me or anything of my past. I kept it brief and he didn’t question any of it. I was relaxed and I never use to be a relaxed person. Always very anxious and scared, doubting, worrying, non trusting,. I mean normally I would of been paranoid of getting MURDERED n no one knowing where I was but I was in a blissful SHOCK of how safe I felt.! I didn’t care about anything or time none of that. He sat there and talked with me but yet we barely spoke. Just stared n didn’t even feel uncomfortable. I felt his soul, I felt a good warm/burning through my whole body, and I kept wanting to tell him I missed him but I didn’t know him! So I didn’t say that. We smiled, laughed a bit, danced somehow and the magnetized passion was PULLING Me and him but we both controlled it n pretended were fine n all is normal. When I left his house I was driving and my whole body felt like it was exploding for over ten minutes straight and my head felt weird, like my hair was growing or scalp was freaking vibrating. I didn’t know WHAT IT WAS but it couldn’t of been anything bad with the way I felt leaving.
I thought about it for a few days, just wondering if it was all crazy n if it was just that night because he wasn’t a guy I would normally be attracted to and I didn’t understand where my body-intense feelings were coming from. Soooo a few days later he asked how I was and I was curious to make up some reason to stop back over his place to see if maybe I was DRUGGED n crazy the very first night. I went, and WTF even more intense , no talking just staring, listening to music and then some kissing and I said under my breath “ god I have missed your kiss” .. I mean I almost wanted to cry for god sake! The music was playing so I just told him I said “ god I like the way u kiss” and he looked at me n said oh ok lol ok so anyway I felt pretty crazy. Went home n I said I wouldn’t talk to this guy again because we don’t talk we just lay there n hang out or have staring contest and .. I was married :( A man I have been with off n on for 14 yrs and married to for 4 yrs. Who is always mean especially when I’m happy, who wouldn’t let me work, let me have friends or even have a car or a job and let me sleep in our van in the driveway during cold winter months but I went to the van to sleep or just get peace from his demands and endless arguments over the dumbest things. He also never took care of me any more financially than I in the past haven’t been able to do my own self.. actually financially it was worse with him but I couldn’t leave he had control over everything n my four kids were just getting stable in school n leaving him is unacceptable to him so he will sabatote and publicly blame n shame your character if you think of leaving him. Only he is allowed to do the leaving but I was so sad, I didn’t even care about my own kids anymore and i always fought for them but I was so weak., so tired, so at the bottom that I would sleep in the van to regain strength in dealing with him & the life I was “living”.. until that second week / night that I was in there in -25 degree weather and I rolled that beitch van right to a strangers house who that very first night SHINED hope in my heart & mind. I’m not justifying my cheating behavior only trying to explain the place I had been in mentally. I ended up going to see this guy about once a week, sometimes once every two weeks for just a few hours.. and it was always the same thing. This was in January of 2020 and it’s currently Mid June.. we spent a bit of time every now n then n the few times we talked I totally blacked out to his questions ( not on purpose) and just said “ maybe idk” to many things he asked. I couldn’t live with the fact I was being sneaky to my asshole husband, and I also could NOT sleep with my own husband, I felt like I was betraying the other guy and I didn’t understand it!!!! I barely knew the guy no matter what feelings he gave me that I never experienced before it was just weird so I told my hubs I had to go for a while and figure stuff out. That I couldn’t look at him the same after some massive betrayals and so I went to a property I had in another town that was vacant as shit. I slept on hardwood floors & mold with 11 bucks to my name cause my hubs wouldn’t give me anything of course n I don’t know anyone else. For two weeks I didn’t talk to anyone I just absorbed all the pain and reality that my choices in life had brought me to n wondered how I could EVER build back up. Things happened like the covid virus and after 2/3 weeks alone in a empty house with nothing I went back to my hubs to try again… but NOPE it seemed WORSE like I couldn’t handle his mouth like I use to.. I couldn’t brush it off. I left again, got a bed and a fridge n shove for the other house and tried looking for a job all while detoxing off pain killers and being a stay at home momma for 16 years.. it was so hard but it had to be done in secret. Only I knew why n what I wanted, needed and was determined to do. I seen the Twin guy( didn’t know he was that yet but I have always been a spiritual and self reflection kind of person) and EVERY time I would leave and drive away from him after doing NOTHING but be in his presence, I would have those ‘ lift me up to the sky, vibrating, 10-15 min TOTAL mind n body BLISS and I would even like twitch ( it was like a small vapor left my body n caused it to react idk!!! ) a few times while I was driving in AWEEEEE wondering how and why is this happening every time! NO BS!! Even at his house, no fear, wasn’t afraid, was scared of getting caught or in trouble, I felt like I was HIGH but I wasn’t at all!! So annnnnyway! Lol He started this whole thing I believe, or running into him how ever u see it. Then after a few weeks of talking to no one alone again and completely detoxed from bs I was just coming home from work and my sister did some really messed up stuff and I was freaking out.. it was weird. I thought I was having a mental break down n to afraid to tell anyone because my husband was already trying to prove me unfit and make up lies so he can keep the kids n not pay child support cause he’s greedy n cheap ( if u were wondering why) so I was super paranoid n I had a right to be since my own sister tried to pin her financial loss of her own doing on me with her company that I only worked with for three days doing labor work.. I’m honest n moral I couldn’t believe so much of this one.. so I let her take her stuff out of my home and as she was leaving my scalp was idk the word but felt like my hair was growing n it was trippy n the the wood floors looked like they were moving… I wasn’t sure if I had officially gone crazy or not but I also didn’t even trip about it lbvs. Everything that was wood in the house was literally moving in slow waves or sometimes it looked like that were floating a bit and only the ones I focused on and I seriously blew it off like “ ohhhh ya that’s weird why’s the floor look all crazy” and a few Hmmmns but that was it.. for a few hours at least. She left N I was SOLO I don’t remember exactly what happened next but I tried to touch one of the boards that was separating/floating/moving the heck around and the closer my finger got to the wood board the board began to idk I guess melt downwards like a thick thick sand or clay material that only moved if my eyes or hands touched it or came close/ focused.. so I was like WHAT THE HECK I’m tripping! Grabbed my phone n was watching YouTube videos then a few tarot videos n not only were the tarot cards movie on the screen telling a slight story but I was able to see beyond people’s kitchens if there were doorways or hallways I could maneuver their walls in THEIR videos and look further into their homes, also I touched the screen and my finger was making a impression on the screen no shit., I kept messing with the phone thing and tried other videos that played and it was a “ pick a card” deck n the lady asked the viewer to pick a deck or Two and so idk whyyy but I took my pointer finger and touched the deck with the tip of my finger and i stg I seen my damn fingerprint impressions stay on those cards! They were gold.. everything I touched on the electronics left a gold dust or impression and I was like wow! I’m amazing! This is my gift! Idk why I would think they and not be freaked out but I wasn’t at all.. I got up looking at the floors still bending all over calmly and I was moving the floor boards which ever way I chose with barley any force, just love and will. I also had gold flakey dust coming from my finger tips when I would rub my hands together and when I would try to mend a broken piece of wood. Anything that had earthy material to it,, I could manipulate and maneuver., I could move the walls in my house like curtains, I opened a huge space in my room about 4*4 feet wide and it was very deep though,, I felt that or kind heard in a feeling way that I was supposed to go “ down below to find my truth/the truth/ only there will I find the truth and that I have went through changes ( not the word I heard I can’t remember but it’s close) in such short time that I am on my way to a master healer..? Idk but I was like ., me? No way.. but I accept and won’t let u down ( these were all feelings and small whispers if I said anything but mainly telepathic.. no not telepathic but like emotional energy of words that had nothing to do with my mind at all but my heart/stomach and my chest, eyes and head I felt it all.. some words that I heard aren’t words but the feeling and knowing didn’t need a word., u just understand. So I tried going “ down below” and I thought I had to get through the big spot in the wood floor that I seen partially already open but underneath my huge dresser.. I was afraid but I wasn’t.. I felt trust so I’m trying to use my golden flake magic fingers ( lol ) to open it up more when I realized I am on my knees.. and I stopped.. thought “ the truth u will only find down below” … dk why but I knew it wasn’t the hole .. it was humbling myself to my knees in truth but i didn’t know what truth.. I stood up and watched all the walls fall around my room as the moonlight,stars and night sky became my surroundings, not walls., I heard neighbors talking that were no where near, people crying, kids crying, ppl fighting ALL over the place each direction and it was so so loud but I couldn’t see anyone just there convos and pleas.. I turned around from the sky and I was standing in front of my dresser mirror .. at first I looked so beautiful and magical and I felt really amazing in the most humble way.. I said thank you for this gift, guide me to what u want me to do next and I will not let u down, I promise I want to help and I heard/felt “ shed your old skin now u don’t need it anymore and do your dance and look deep to see who you truly are” with a feeling of do not be afraid keep going with those words.. kind of a warning I guess :/ I didn’t know what the heck to do so I started off with a sway back n forth kind of dance and touching my body and arms and then everything after that was a robot mode I didn’t even realize.. so I started grabbing my stomach and behind my left shoulder blade/back area up and around the the left of my neck and face with my hands that still shed gold flakes with every touch and I continued with the flow of natural movement towards pulling/massaging/rubbing/loving/ dancing my hands around certain parts of my stomach, face, neck, hair, and shoulder blade. My stomach looked like a tornado funnel, it was gross as I massaged it , like a worm hole a HUGE one and I kept pulling and rubbing on it and it kind of hurt but it didn’t ( my stomach was so messed up for about a week before this experience making crazy noises and hurting like I lost someone or some thing I can’t describe it because it was the WORST pain I have ever known! For a moment through out the weeks before this I remember crying in a longing way like a ghost who missed or loved someone she will never see again and the PAIN and sadness OMG and the way I “ cried” isn’t even a cry it was like a lonnnnnnnng painful hopeless most sad wallow of a cry over and over again time to time out of nowhere .. and I remember saying to myself “ I know how lost souls feel how it feels to be dead and missing something deeply” ( those words can’t even describe the desperation and sadness in that cry but on with the rest so… my skin seriously looked like it was going to fall off and reveal some other person n I was pretty terrified to see who the fuck “ I am” under the skin .. had to stop a few times and take a breath then started pulling the skin but it didn’t ever really come off lol thank god right! Haha but on my face I heard “ see you remember you” so I looked n followed what I was hearing/feeling to do .. I got closer to the mirror and covered half of my face and stared, then the other half and stared and then turned my face slowly each direction, got closer n closer to the mirror and my damn EYEBALL was different!! My right eye and side of the face was this old old woman, she had my eyes but not my shape of eye n they were powerful and satisfied , she had so many wrinkles around her eyes I was kind of scared for real And so I looked at the left side and I heard/felt “ who do u see now” as I was confused n looked harder n tilted my face different ways and it was my FREAKIN SISTERS FACE!!! Holy shit!! I screamed! Scared me more than the old lady!! But I looked again to make sure and yup, my baby sisters face was on my left side of my damn face and she was so sad… this face looked lost and sad and omg omg and I remember saying “Sabrina.. I am so sorry lil sis so sorry” .. see my sister always acts bossy n in control to me who is 8 yrs older n always protected her how I could but she has a problem with lying to me about things that I never even asked about, always lies. Always tells ppl lies about me and never shows her hurt or weakness to the world or me.. no one.. she’s full of hurt n that’s why I couldn’t give up on her no matter the lies she spread or hate but this last time she was going to and tried to set me up n risk me going to jail For her greedy choices, lies and decisions but my intuition saved me from taking the bait just in the nick of time n we haven’t talked since.. and it hurts me that I failed her but she won’t admit the truth about what n why just avoids n lies more n spreads drama so I continue to heal.. worry about everything else later I guess.. but yes, her face was on my left side and not just that but I’ve had this huge softball or bigger knot of tissue right under my neck/shoulder blade Inner edge area for about 15 yrs.. and the last 8 years I mean I am constantly trying to reach it and rub it cause it HURTS but it never went away just been there.. my oldest daughter has had the same thing in the same spot for about 4/5 years and says the same thing but this magically night I found out what the knot was.. it was my shadow… my sister on the left side.. ATTACHED to my left wing! I had to pull pull pull and pull for two days rhis went on and when i would turn to the right a bit i could literally see her fave, shoulder and down to her hip as a silloutte about 3/4 inches around my whole left side of my body.., even my hair and ear it was CRAZY then after a lot of work facing my insecurties and massages n pulling i got her off and the ball has been gone ever since but that didnt happen until i seen the true me.. things i didnt even know i was hiding.. how evil and disgusting i was , how i claimed to be a lovin person but all i did was TAKE love, i was SELFISH, insecure, hateful, blaming, stubborn, lazy a CONSUMING LOVE GREEDY PIG even to my own kids!!! i couldnt believe it!! and every truth revealed only revealed another until i dropped to my KNEES and cried for all the hurt amd pain i caused all these
people and situations i seen flashes of . i had multiple false masks the whole time of life but i genuinely believed i only had a few that were not a big deal until i seen the truth down below. i begged for forgiveness and felt so ashamed but thankful for the oppurtunity of truth i didnt feel worthy of a Master Healer gift thats for sure! but it ended and i seen more visions and i seen my “twin” crying and sad in his house so i grabbed my phone amd messaged him WHO KNOWS WHAT to this day but i didnt and dont care to this day because it was all love and truth i sent to him over n over again during these two days of putting hand prints in wood floors, pulling ofd the shadow and being driven in my car only following the ” crumbling roads path” until this light shined so bright down the long drive way of this how that was about 20 miles a way and tbe house that had a SOLD sign on it and i Knew rhe house.. i knew it! i remembered so MUCH! there was a huge white bread truxk van with a logo on it broken down near the woods of the property and i seen the curtains and garage and remebered my twin LIVING there but i also remember being there with my lil brother and sister and walking to rhe woods to a path where my twin was working on a tunnel he and my brother were building through rhe woods. there was a huge construxtion site in progress behind the woods and i remember thag before too and that my twin had started building some kind of building there and when i showed up he was comfused how i found him but happy and we walked in his house he got a glass of water and said hes living here now and if i would stay there for a while with him until things got better but something happened and a white van picked us up and took me and the twin to my home and said its over now but we can have a brand new life we juag have to say yes.. and my home was burning down as we sat.. i said what about my four
kids and my husband i cant leave them here n where r we going but they said it has to be just me and him but they promise they will pick my kids up in another vehicle and i could watxh but when we start are new lives only me n the twin can come in the room but they told me to trust we would find each other and my kids.. it all became clear and i feel it all happened but not this life.. another just like it becauze when i got to the home that i remembered almost instantly and all rhe places and trees omg everything came snapping into my memory but see my lil brother died 9 years ago, my twin wasnt there like i remembered ( was not dejavu) , the car that came out rhe garage
never was there, and the tunnel hadnt been started., and no van or stone building was we taken to nor any watery door way did we lay down in… it was just me on a property that i have never been to in this lifetime but have every memory of things i shouldnt remember so well.
theres so much more but man .. what the HECK! Oh and the twin wont respond to me since i text him a bunch of stuff the day i seen what i seen.. it sucks but im ok with it because whatever life i remember ended in flames and seperation of my four kids because something or someone or a bunch of someones and i swear i almost remembering the whole world was going crazy ass well and we didnt have time to chose or think we just had to trust these people that we would have a whole different life when wake up and we will all be together if we chose but we had to chose to go then n in the new life we would have to chose again but if we loved n had faith that we dont have to fear or doubt not chosing … its all so amazing and crazy and i believe in things now that i never knew were possible.. i never could of known without the gold flake Experience but i miss it and that house and stone room is driving me crazy!!! i just need to know.. did i chose different? did he? and im all alone with this story too.. its so beautiful not to share. be better to share with someone who remembered as well but…i guess the timing isnt right for anyone but me
I was born and raised in a right wing Catholic family and mentioning any of the spiritual things that I have seen and the experiences that I have encountered throughout my life, would have been enough to condemn me to Hell and never allow me to go back to Church. I took my years in understanding my gifts: speaking with and seeing spirits, healing, being able to tell your past lives with exact dates, being able to see your present and your future including the exact date of your death and the cause of death, ability to see the good and evil (acts) in people as I see them walking by me; those are my abilities. I have been clearing my path the last 5-6 years in order to regain the healing gift, which I should regain in a couple of additional years. I have always felt like I am not from this Planet, like that I have no friend and no interest in accumulating power and money, I have had no twin soul. I have had many, many spiritual experiences. Some I liked, some I did not…..but I am working on recovering my healing abilities to help people. Soon, soon it will happen. I can feel it!
One night, after doong some really hard shadow work, I was lying in bed with my husband and we got on the topic of deja’vu. We have a skylight above our bed and as we were talking I was looking up at it. Suddenly, I literally felt the skies open up and I was no longer in our room.I was just “there”. I was complete. I felt like I was full, to my soul, of love, wonder and ecstacy . I “saw” nothing but I “saw” everything!!! It last nanoseconds but felt like eternity. It was the singular most amazing and soul-quenching feeling I could ever experience. I immediately started to cry. I was so happy. I could feel the happiness in every cell in my body. I cry now when I think of it. This came at a time when I needed it to keep going on a hard path.
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There are psycologists that would realy valuing your experience. I think it can be crucial to talk to people who understand. There are people in hospital diagnoser with deseases that are not a inn nede at all. The are blind and try to figurer out things they have not experienced. Please get help from psycologists and other therapist but do not think they know everything. The dont. All the best to you.
Great. Thank you. Despite anything we ” know “
I enjoyed reading all this about mystical experience. So good to nod and know that other people have experience the same. What I dont find helpfull is the author of this site putting his own limitations and experiences into this. Some of what is said here is not true for me. It is like transference. What is said here to be true is what will happen aften the experience and how it will effect. To my great joy it is not true for me and then not true for everyone else. Ut puta limitations to it.
Lots of love Gina
Norway
Hey Gina,
I appreciate you sharing your experience. These 9 characteristics aren’t based on my experience alone, Rudolf Otto conducted studies in which these were the minimum characteristics that were looked for in someone having a mystical experience. I know there to be more and different ones, but generally, these 9 are always found in someone who’s having this type of experience.
I hope that provides more clarity.
Sorry forgot to mention something. While smoking green. I have seen and experienced my own death. Blew my mind on this one. I actually felt my soul being sucked out. Went into a tunnel or vortex. When I came out. I was surrounded by a warm gold light
Another experience here recently. I saw myself talking to God in space before I was ever born. I was showed my whole life. My death everything. I was asked did I still want to be born and I said yes. I believe this is why I have had deja vu through out my life.
I’m a 54 year old nurse who hit a deer at 80 mph and totaled my car. Because of the wreck I have seizures. I lost my job, car, home and wound up homeless on the streets. One experience I had many years ago. I saw myself going through space and met Jesus somewhere in space. Me and him became as one. And when that happened I felt love through every pore in my body. It was unconditional and it just exploded through me. That was so real to me.
Twice in my life I have seen battles between angels and demons. For 3 days I saw this and heard this. One of the most graphic and intense battles I have ever seen. My life was in danger. There was literally millions of angels and demons. My phiance saw black smoke fighting white smoke.
Did you see them in forms such as creatures. I also saw something similar
Yes … I finally find something that proves I may not be losing my mind. This happened to me. I was just sitting on a veranda on the side of a large house … just sitting listening to music for hours … not thinking about anything in particular. Earlier in my life, I had been on a real spiritual search for the truth but had given up in frustration years ago. Suddenly … I felt my sight being pulled forward and then expanding beyond anything I could possibly imagine … but it was more than that … I was seemingly part of everything and everything had a slight glow …. the feeling of love and gratitude was completely and totally overwhelming. The beauty of everything around me was incredible … the trees… the fence .. the stars … and then a cat appeared and walked by but I had no thought of ‘cat’ … it was filled with awe to see this miracle in front of me … time stood still … Everything was new with every moment … it was beyond thought. Beyond words. The next morning I woke up and still felt the glow of the experience so I immediately ran to get a pen to write down anything I could remember! As soon as I started to try to think of the words to write .. it began to disappear. I then tried to write the first word and it was gone. The only thing I could write was … “. That Which Creates Everything”. Since then, my life completely fell apart and I’ve basically lost everything. BUT … I know I am That which has no beginning, no end, has never been spoken, and never will be.
Great. Thank you. Despite anything we ” know “
I am not sure what to call my experience. I had given into the unbearable pain of the precipitous delivery( very fast, no pain relief medicine) of my third child. I was no longer in body and felt as a warm hug was being given to me. I wasn’t looking down on myself but felt lifted from my body. There was a sense of calmness I had never felt before. Minutes after my daughter was born and I had come back to my body feeling left in a trancelike state for hours after.
Yup, I had this experience in 2016 while I was meditating. I had never experienced it before and I haven’t experienced again since. It was the beautiful moment in my entire life. I was no longer in my body, I was no longer in my house, I was pure light and all I could feel was unconditional Love and complete oneness with everything. I came to and had tears streaming down my face and I went vegan in that moment.
That sounds beautiful, thank you for sharing Alexis :)
This was a very profound article for me. I took the Shaman or Mystic test and it came back Mystic. I read your version of what one is, and the word ‘Grace’ smacked me up the side of my head! …..I need to share an experience….. I’d been in poor health for three years and was starting to get better, so decided to go a bike get-together that I’d never been to. I wanted to ride there by myself as a celebration of healing…. Long story short, the love coming from old friends and new was almost overwhelming. I broke down in tears when a stranger walked up and gave me a piece of serpentinite, my favorite stone…. The need to share this with someone, to figure out what was going on, was strong. I talked with an old friend, who is very religious. I told him about the overwhelming love all around me. He told me it was Grace. I wasn’t raised Catholic so he explained what it was. At the end of his explanation, he simply said, “God is winking at you.” Both of us were in tears…… That was a couple years ago. God / Spirit / Universe, whatever power that be, is still winking at me now and then. I’m very grateful for it….
I need a teacher. I am ready. I am not sure what I am . As I read thru the shaman bit I felt hope. I took the test and it said mystic, I don’t feel like I identify with this. I am searching.
In a moment everything changes and cannot be the same again. If you desire, future experiences will follow. I find it best to be patient and have faith in the great gift that has been bestowed. Few know it. Fewer pursue it once known. Bliss calls for great faith.
I think I went through this… It felt like total understanding of the world and seeing all the light and darkness as perfection… The whole picture! I miss this feeling but I have a strong feeling that it is still there. I have to find it again, within me. I still don’t know what triggered such a realization but I can’t stop thinking about it and cant forget how deep it was.
Once you’ve tasted it, most previous values we held in life will feel meaningless. This is how the spiritual awakening path begins.
Yes yes and it can be very frustrating. The only thing that really matters . :)
I explained some of these experiences with a therapist after experiences depression for a few years…I was then diagnosed with bipolar disorder…still don’t know how I feel about all of this. The experiences I’ve had throughout my life seem deeper than a mental disorder, or maybe the “chemical imbalances” in my brain are seen more as an illness than a gift in this day & age. I have no idea anymore.
Maybe you are bi-polar. But I’ve had such experiences, and I am sure I am not bi-polar, schitzophrenic or mentally ill. Also, if I tell a psychiatrist and what I’ve seen and experienced, he’ll diagnose me immediately :)
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There are psycologists that would realy valuing your experience. I think it can be crucial to talk to people who understand. There are people in hospital diagnoser with deseases that are not a inn nede at all. The are blind and try to figurer out things they have not experienced. Please get help from psycologists and other therapist but do not think they know everything. The dont. All the best to you.
I have been searching for this article for quite a few weeks now. Trying to find a name for what it was called. I know it might be crazy but I experienced ALL of these at the same time, I was on the most amazing spiritual high I have ever felt, I felt like I was walking in heaven even though I was right here, on Earth. Everything was love and light. It was beautiful but I only got to experience it for a couple of weeks before it was abruptly cut off and I was completely confused and in utter despair. Turning into my Dark Night of the Soul. Even now as I am experiencing it, I am so happy to know it is for a reason. I am excited to try the meditation you’ve offered on here tonight. I just am so relieved and happy to have found this site. The one thing I will say I am so worried and sad about is that this “mystical experience” was a one time thing for me to get just a “taste.” That seems so unfair and almost cruel IF it was the only time I get to experience such a Divine feeling. It allowed me to connect to my 3rd eye abilities and I was giving psychic and mediumship readings at one point and I crave to have that connection again. I have met my higher self so now, I suppose I must know my lower self.
Thank you Chelsea for sharing your experience. The mystical taste is definitely not just a one time thing, it really comes down to how badly we want to experience this again. Sacrifices in our time often have to be made, to dedicate ourselves to practices of inner work and spiritual contemplation; things like meditation, tai chi, shamanic journeying, and many more can bring us deep peak states of being, for longer and longer periods, the more we practice them.
I am so grateful to be able to find this site I have been reading a lot of stuff on here and I have been going through a big change in my life at times I feel alone because I don’t no anyone who has had this happen to it started last year when I got shot and I was in a motorcycle accident I broke my pelvis and my leg and I started to meditate because of the pain I stopped taken the pills that the doctor gave me and they told me that I’m never going to be the same it’s been a year and I’m fine now it got so deep I got flashbacks when I was a lil kid how I would communicate with spirit and I would have like a outer body experience like when I crashed and one day every thing just went away every thing I new it started when I stopped meditating that’s when stuff started to fade out