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Advisory for the mystical journey
Objective of this presentation
Happiness, the purpose of natural mysticism
Apophaticism and religion
Is apophatic mysticism religious?
The human psyche
Mentation
Apophasis: Part one
Apophasis: Part two
Inchoate conversations
Why bother with
philosophy?
Defining the
essense of the mystical experience
Pin the wheel: Mike
Butler
Just for the fun of
it: Pragmatic mysticism
Spiritual force or
forces
No assumptions
My use of the term "God"
Wandering in the realm of the non-ordinary (this is section one)
Certainty and Specificity
Personalizing
the experience of the spirit
The spirit: secular
or impartial
Reversing and returning
the psychic flow
The selfishness of
the mystic
Eschatology,
ambition, and the mystic's reality-based humility
Urgency
Doubt
Speculation, language,
and natural mysticism
Ecstasy and ecstatic
wholeness
Words are merely metaphor,
when words vanish we are delivered
The numen and "ultimate
reality"
Living in the moment
Reductionism
Wandering in the realm of the non-ordinary, section two
Eternal parity
The dangers of reading and writing about mysticism
Acts of compassion
The proof and authenticity of mysticism
Horses, scholars, and mystics
In fear of his neighbors on every side
Contrasting the approach of natural mysticism with science and
religion
Working lightly with diligence
Mystical pretensions
Storming heaven
The apophatic's metaphor is sovereign
Is there any advantage in believing in God?
Wandering in the realm of the non-ordinary, section three
The numen: an unspeakable dance of ten thousand
Creating gods
Public and private metaphors
Telling stories that allow more creatively exquisite outcomes
How to find your spiritual master
Heretical thoughts
Psycho-visceral presence
Miracles, delusions, and ineffective beliefs
The manifestation of a god who disappears
Wandering in the realm of the non-ordinary, section four
What does a mystic look like?
Astonishment
Funny stuff
Addiction, attachment, and frugality
Beyond gods
The "evil" force"
Love as a stumbling block
Be as selfish as possible
Convincing masters
Meditation
Spiritual sovereignty
Side effects from meditation
Wandering
in the realm of the non-ordinary, section five
Transmuting negative force
Spiritual anguish
Surrendering the idea of the Holy
The noetic quality of mystical experience
Utter vulnerability: the mystic's treasure
The dangers of mystical practice
Superstitious and effective devotion
The importance of meaninglessness
Praying to the world's momentum
Prayer of gratitude for ignorance
Depression
Wandering in the realm of the non-ordinary, Work in progress
Making Being your personal teacher
The sovereign soul
Send your anger to the divine power
Value and belief
Resisting habitual propensity
Presence and absence
Magic, mythology, and science
Rawley Creed on mysticism
Message of Zhuang Zi
The Great Mother
Mysticism and pretense
This and That
Reflections on Buddhism
and Zhuang Zi
Rawley Creed Confesses
Sensual pleasure
Who captivates my interest?
How to evoke the shattering
of the psyche
Theoretical history
of apophaticism
What is a mystic?
The advantage of doubt
Is evil a plausible
notion?
Not to reify the divinity
Gain and loss
Emotional appeal
Divinity = hyperconductivity?
Waiting:
Stephen Batchelor
Importunate
prayer
A Christian
apophatic: Augustine Baker
Saint John of the Cross:
Dark Night of the Soul
Binding the divine force,
idolatry and infidelity in Ibn 'Arabi: Michael A. Sells
William Pepperell Montague
on "positive mysticism."
William
Pepperell Montague on the inner mystic experience
Hans Waldenfels
on Nagarjuna's use of philosophy
Mircea Eliade on the role
of Isvara in Patanjali's Yoga
Geoarge
Feuerstein and Jeanine Miller on the Kesin Hymn
Ewert H.
Cousins: a historical summary on the terms apophatic and cataphatic
Forcing
God, Meister Eckhart
Tu-Shun
on Theory and practice in Zen
Peter
Heltzel on Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
Christoher
Isherwood on Kali, the experience of the Divine Indulgent Mother
No holiness
Pray to whomever it may
concern
Robert K. C. Forman on
the bimodal mystical process
Attar:
An answer of Jesus
Saint John
of the Cross: Good and Evil
An overview of apophatic mysticism: Sovereign Contentment
Restatements
The unholy disposition
A god for the atheist
On not forcing compassion
on yourself or others
Doubt: a jewel for the apophatic
Shattering
Apophatics
and gods
The ubiquity of the
divine force
Imaginaing gods
Loving the spiritual
source without insisting that she exist
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