Mysticism is when someone has a special experience that makes them feel connected to everything in the world. It's something that happens to some people, but we don't really know why. Even though some people try techniques to have this experience, it…
Christmas marks the celebration of the birth of the most famous mystic in the West. What mystics have in common is that they have something complicated to share with people, but not with other mystics. It isn’t easy to make people believe…
Many projects that seek to understand human activity have in common that they try to build a unified theory that includes both the bizarre experiences and the mundane world we usually perceive. They do not see these two worlds as separate but…
Mysticism and Philosophy is a book on mystical experience published by Walter Terence Stace in 1960. Stace's work is, as its name implies, a philosophical work. It is not about life skills or an ethical guide but a clarification of concepts (mostly…
Sometimes, very rarely, though, it happens that unexpectedly our mind behaves strangely and, for a while, we experience something called a mystical experience. However, our consciousness does not expand or rise to a higher level, even though it may seem so. On…
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The power of psychedelics is gaining increasing interest in several fields of science. Some professional philosophers are attracted to the impact of psychedelics on philosophical thinking, particularly on metaphysics, which is the science of the most fundamental questions of knowledge. In…