Article - Mystical Experiences: Mystical Experiences During Meditation
Mystical Experiences: Mystical Experiences during meditation These are short explanations of various categories of mystical experiences ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystical Experience: Parapsychology Dictionary On Mystical Experience
Mystical Experience: ASCs involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc.   (See ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Experience: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Experience - Mystical Experiences
Mystical experiences are in many ways the opposite of numinous experiences. In the mystical experience, all 'otherness' disappear and the...   » Read the article

Article - Mystical Experiences: Movement Of The Mind
Movement of the Mind After a short practice of meditation you will feel that the body gets lighter in a short time, say fifteen or thirt...   » Read the article

Article - Mystical Experiences: Dazzling Mystical Lights In Meditation
Dazzling Mystical Lights in Meditation Sometimes, during meditation, you will get very powerful and dazzling lights, bigger than the sun...   » Read the article

Article - Mystical Experiences: Separation From The Physical Body
Separation from the Physical Body During the course of meditation, one day you will feel that you have separated yourself from the body....   » Read the article

Article - Mystical Experiences: Visions Of Lights In Meditation
Visions of Lights in Meditation Various kinds of lights manifest during meditation owing to concentration. In the beginning, a bright, w...   » Read the article

Article - Meditation: Mystic Experience In Meditation - Visions Of Lights
Mystic Experience - Visions Of Lights Various kinds of lights manifest during meditation owing to deep concentration. In the beginning a...   » Read the article

Article - New Age Spirituality: The Roots Of The New Age Movement � Part I
The New Age movement is hardly novel! Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions, often based on mystical experiences, each within a ...   » Read the article

Article - Dark Night Of The Soul: Spiritual Crisis - The Dark Night Of The Soul
Dark night of the soul, spiritual crisis, spiritual madness, spiritual emergency, divine madness, holy madness... these are various phr...   » Read the article

Article - Tarot Cards: Tarot And The Conscious And Subconscious Mind
The symbolic images on the Tarot cards activate and speak to a deep intuitive part of ourselves which the logical, conscious mind cannot ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mysticism: Encyclopedia - Mysticism
Mysticism, from the Greek μυω (muo, "to conceal"), is the pursuit of achieving communion with or conscious awareness of ultimate reali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Mysticism: Encyclopedia - Christian Mysticism
Mysticism is the philosophy and practice of a direct experience of God. Although it needs to be born in mind that 'experience' is a hotly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe
The Nazi Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft organization was founded by Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth, and Walter Darré on July...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Good Friday: Encyclopedia - Good Friday
Good Friday is a holy day celebrated by Christians on the Friday before Easter or Pascha. It commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus at Cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jakob Böhme: Encyclopedia - Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) was a Christian mystic born in central Germany, near Görlitz. He grew up as a Lutheran, and worked as a shoem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transpersonal: Encyclopedia - Transpersonal
The term Transpersonal is often used to refer to psychological categories that transcend the normal features of ordinary ego-functioning....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Hitler's Wwi Experience
Hitler claimed that during his time served in WWI that he had a religious awakening, specifically around when he was temporarily blinded ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Experience: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Experience - Discussion
Habel's differentiation between mediate and immediate religious experiences is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a dire...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Experience: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Experience - The Numinous
The German thinker Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) argues that there is one common factor to all religious experience, independent of the cultura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religious Experience: Encyclopedia Ii - Religious Experience - Enthusiasm
In enthusiasm - or possession - god is understood to be outside, other than or beyond the believer. A sacred power, being or will enters ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mysticism - Examples In Major Traditions
Examples of major traditions and philosophies with strong elements of mysticism are: Christian Gnosticism Christian mysticism Eastern Or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mysticism - Mysticism And Syncretism
Mystics of different traditions report similar experiences of a world usually outside conventional perception, although not all forms of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mysticism - Subjectivity And Mysticism
Theistic, pantheistic, and panentheistic classical pantheist/cosmotheist metaphysical systems most often understand mystical experience a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mysticism - Self-transcending Self-discovery
The term Perennial Philosophy, coined by Leibniz and popularized by Aldous Huxley, relates to what some take to be the mystic's primary c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Mysticism - On The Difficulty Of Defining Mysticism
Readers frequently encounter seemingly open-ended statements among studies of mysticism, throughout its history, for example in Taoist th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematical Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematical Beauty - Beauty In Experience
Some degree of delight in the manipulation of numbers and symbols is probably required to engage in any mathematics. Given the utility of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Religion - Other Studies
Psychology of religion - William James: Personal religious experience pragmatism. U.S. psychologist and philosopher William James (1842...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Religion - Religion And Drugs
Psychology of religion - Karl Marx: Religion as opium of the people. Karl Marx famously asserted religion to be "the opium of people" (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Suppression Of Secret Societies
The Nazi party actively discouraged certain mystical secret societies, in fact interning, and sometimes executing, a number of high-ranki...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Overview
Nazi mysticism is a Völkisch movement initiation with roots in the Thule society and theosophy, as well as the ideas of Arthur de Gobine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychology Of Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychology Of Religion - Psychoanalytical Studies
Psychology of religion - Sigmund Freud: Oedipus complex illusion. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) gave explanations of the genesis of relig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Nazi Mysticism And Modern Pseudoscience
The writings of Miguel Serrano, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, and other proponents of Nazi Mysticism have spawned numerous later works conn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Early Influences
Nazi mysticism - Theozoology. In 1905 Lanz von Liebenfels published a fundamental statement of doctrine titled Theozoologie oder die Ku...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Research And Expeditions
A great deal of time and resources were spent on researching or creating a popularly accepted “historical”, “cultural” and “sci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - In Fiction
Nazi occult-hunters have been featured in the Indiana Jones films. Occult-obsessed Nazis have long been a staple of superhero comic books...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nazi Mysticism: Encyclopedia Ii - Nazi Mysticism - Central Beliefs
The origin of the Aryan race, the Teutons generally, and the Germanic peoples specifically, the putative superiority of said Aryans over ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematical Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematical Beauty - Beauty And Mysticism
Some mathematicians express beliefs about mathematics that are close to mysticism. Pythagoras (and his entire philosophical school of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematical Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematical Beauty - Beauty In Method
Mathematicians describe an especially pleasing method of proof as elegant. Depending on context, this may mean: A proof that uses a mini...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematical Beauty: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematical Beauty - Beauty In Results
Mathematicians see beauty in mathematical results which establish connections between two areas of mathematics that at first sight appear...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: Parapsychology Dictionary On Mysticism
Mysticism: Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine. See also myst...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystic: Parapsychology Dictionary On Mystic
Mystic: A person who has mystical experiences. Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.   (See also: Mysti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sufism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Sufism
Sufism Ancient Persian mystical religious system which has been absorbed by Islam. Rather than focusing on the Five Pillars of Islam, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Left-hand Path: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Left-hand Path
left-hand path Building personality and its attachments (versus right-hand mystical ascent) which leads to stronger ego and more expe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Knowledge: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Knowledge
KNOWLEDGE "Knowledge is the excrement of experience." -- Austin Osman Spare.     (See also: KNOWLEDGE , Magick, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Idiotheosis: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Idiotheosis
IDIOTHEOSIS A private version (or private experience) of god-becoming.     (See also: IDIOTHEOSIS , Magick, Mysticism, Mys...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tattva Vision: Encyclopedia Ii - Tattva Vision - The Tattva Symbols
Akasha - Spirit black vesica Pisces / black egg Tejas - Fire red equilateral triangle Vayu - Air blue circle Apas - Water purple half...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - Medical Experiments
Later on an Institute for Functional Research in Military Science (Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung) was set up within ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - Involvement Of German Soldiers
In 2002, Ukraine announced the discovery of a mass-grave containing dozens of Nazi soldiers in the southern region of the country. Some h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - End Of The War
In August 1943, Himmler relocated the Ahnenerbe headquarters from Wewelsburg castle in Büren, to Waischenfeld to avoid the danger of All...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - History
Much of their research was later believed to extend beyond pseudoscience into occultism. In total, the Ahnenerbe was divided into 50 sect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - Fantasy Vs. Reality
Misconstrued ideas of the Ahnenerbe are common in fantasy fiction, and the they have become part of the background of conspiracy theories...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - Fantasy Vs. Reality
Misconstrued ideas of the Ahnenerbe are common in fantasy fiction, and they have become part of the background of conspiracy theories - l...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Cosmic Consciousness: Parapsychology Dictionary On Cosmic Consciousness
Cosmic Consciousness: A blissful experience in which the person becomes aware of the whole universe as a living being.   See al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - Travels Operations And Expeditions
Archealogical expeditions were organized and sent to Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Greece, as well as the region of Kafiristan, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ahnenerbe: Encyclopedia Ii - Ahnenerbe - Travels, Operations And Expeditions
Archealogical expeditions were organized and sent to Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Greece, as well as the region of Kafiristan, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Netzach: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Netzach
NETZACH The seventh qabalistic power zone on the Tree of Life, the abode of Venus, concerned with feelings, sensations, etc. It is vic...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychophobia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Psychophobia
Psychophobia Fear of soul; coined by Blavatsky (IU 1:46), and applied to all-denying materialists who refuse to believe anything outsi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mystic Death: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Mystic Death
Mystic Death An experience at a certain stage of initiation, where the candidate undergoes the experiences of virtual death, differing...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Upanishads: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Upanishads
Upanishads One of the scriptures of Hinduism. The inspired teachings, visions, and mystical experiences of the ancient sages of India ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Christ Consciousness: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Christ Consciousness
Christ Consciousness The spiritual and mystical experience of the unity of all the universe. To attain cosmic consciousness is to see ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mescaline: Encyclopedia Ii - Mescaline - Side Effects
One or more of the following side effects may or may not accompany any individual experience with mescaline. Mescaline - Positive Side E...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mysticism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Mysticism
mysticism: Spirituality; the pursuit of direct spiritual or religious experience. Spiritual discipline aimed at union or communion wit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Non-locality: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Non-locality
NON-LOCALITY It works on Time as well as Space. Thus every sub-atomic experiment affects the Big Bang and reshapes the universe. Rober...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Koan: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Koan
KOAN A paradoxical Zen riddle designed to occupy the reason, so that the unconscious mind can be freed to look for Mu and experience e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sahu: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sahu
Sahu (Egyptian) The spiritual entity, the entity of the deceased in heaven. According to popular legend it grew out of the dead body a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Myalba, Dmyal Ba: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Myalba, Dmyal Ba
Myalba dmyal ba (nyal-wa) (Tibetan) Northern Buddhist name for our earth, which they considered a hell for those whose karma it is to ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bacon, Roger: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger (1214?-1294) English philosopher and natural scientists, Franciscan monk who experimented with alchemy and optics and was...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Melissai: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Melissai
Melissai (Greek) Bees; applied to poets and certain priestesses of Delphi, or to Demeter and Artemis, and by the Neoplatonists to any ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lethe: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Lethe
Lethe (Greek) Forgetfulness; a river of the Underworld which confers upon souls destined to live again on earth the boon of oblivion o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anamnesis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anamnesis
Anamnesis (Greek) (from ana back again + mimnesco remember)   Recollection; used by Plato in his theory of knowledge. He taught t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Virgin Birth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Virgin Birth
Virgin Birth Often applied to any kind of reproduction which is not sexual, including that of human races before the separation of the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lalla: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Lalla
Lalla: (Lalasa (Sanskrit) in Sanskrit.) (Sanskrit) A woman Kashmir Saivite saint (ca 1300) whose intensely mystical poems, Lalla Vakya...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dion Fortune: Encyclopedia Ii - Dion Fortune - Writing
She wrote a number of novels and short stories that explored various aspects of magic and mysticism, including The Demon Lover, The Winge...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jhana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Jhana
Jhana (Pali) Meditation in wisdom, equivalent to Sanskrit jnana and dhyana. This experience was originally divided into four states: t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Left-hand Path: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Left-hand Path
left-hand path Building personality and its attachments (versus right-hand mystical ascent) which leads to stronger ego and more expe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sufism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Sufism
Sufism Ancient Persian mystical religious system which has been absorbed by Islam. Rather than focusing on the Five Pillars of Islam, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Alchemy
Alchemy In its original, literal meaning, )an ancient form of physics which, during the middle ages, was used by practitioners to mak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prayer In Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Prayer In Christianity - Epistemological Issues
Geoffrey K. Mondello (see References below) believes that a mystical experience of God is real and provable, and is possible due to the c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Enlightenment: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Enlightenment
ENLIGHTENMENT (bodhi, Sanskrit) - 1. universal consciousness;; traditionally compared to a mind full of light like the moon in a clou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zohar: Encyclopedia Ii - Zohar - Effects On Judaism
The Zohar was lauded by many rabbis because it opposed religious formalism, stimulated one's imagination and emotions, and for many peopl...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Suttung, Suttungr: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Suttung, Suttungr
Suttung, Suttungr (Icelandic) In the Norse Edda, a giant who guards the mead (of experience) in the depths of matter, where the gods m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aleister Crowley: Encyclopedia Ii - Aleister Crowley - Science Magic And Sexuality
Crowley claimed to use a scientific method to study what people at the time called "spiritual" experiences, making "The Method of Science...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aleister Crowley: Encyclopedia Ii - Aleister Crowley - Science, Magic, And Sexuality
Crowley claimed to use a scientific method to study what people at the time called "spiritual" experiences, making "The Method of Science...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Akashic Records: Parapsychology Dictionary On Akashic Records
Akashic Records: Believed in mystical doctrines to be the source or storage area for memories of all human experience, from the begin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ecstasy, Ecstasis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ecstasy, Ecstasis
Ecstasy, Ecstasis (Greek) (from ekstasis displacement, standing out from the proper place, hence rising above)   A transference o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Transcendentalists: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Transcendentalists
Transcendentalists Those who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind which transcend sensory experience; those...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Orgone: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Orgone
ORGONE Primordial Reichian cosmic substance, energy, ether, "vibes," etc. surrounding everything in the universe. An orgone ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ectoplasm: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Ectoplasm
ECTOPLASM The stuff, midway between matter and spirit, issued by mediums (from their mouths) to make apparitions visible to non-psychi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holy Guardian Angel: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Holy Guardian Angel
HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL When magi speak of "the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," they refer to that parti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hugin And Munin: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Hugin And Munin
HUGIN AND MUNIN Odin's ravens ("Thought and Memory") which fly out over the world every day and report to him the news every...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Magick: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Magick
MAGICK Stands for theurgy of "god" work, i.e. the hexagram. "M/magic(k)," which is my own spelling, is intended to...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Delusional Self: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Delusional Self
DELUSIONAL SELF The ultimate confusion of psychedelic psychosis results in extreme terror because one becomes lost in an abyss of mean...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sons Of God: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sons Of God
Sons of God An idea, containing divine as well as historic events, known among all ancient peoples.   In ancient Biblical Hebrew...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Saha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Saha
Saha (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root sah to endure, suffer]   One of the loka-dhatus or divisions of the world in Buddhist philo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bur: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bur
Bur (Icelandic) (from burdr birth)   Emanation of Buri, primeval root of being in the Norse Eddas. From Bur sprang the creative t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Epaphos: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Epaphos
Epaphos (Greek) Son of Zeus and Io, in this case the sun and moon; in the Dionysos-Sabazian Mysteries, the son of Zeus and Demeter, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecstasy Of St Theresa: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecstasy Of St Theresa - Critical Assessment
Some modern critics dismiss the semi-syncopal religious experiences to orgasmic psychologic phenomena rather than spiritual encounters. I...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Heroes And Archetypes: Dream Interpretation - Heroes And Archetypes
  Heroes and archetypes The idea of being a hero is based on an archetype - a way of seeing yourself in a dream experience. Many ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Heroes And Archetypes: Dream Interpretation - Heroes And Archetypes
  Heroes and archetypes The idea of being a hero is based on an archetype - a way of seeing yourself in a dream experience. Many ...   » Read the article