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mysticism
(redirected from Mystical experience)

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Despite her friendship with the king, the Inquisition scrutinized Sor Maria's activities for decades, especially the reports of her extraordinary mystical experiences.
Whale offered the recipe for creating the myriad forms of mystical experiences known to seekers across time and culture: the shaman's visionary experience; quiescent periods of meditation; the euphoric, otherworldly states described by Christian mystics and Jewish Kabbalists, Himalayan yogis and Sufi whirling dervishes, Buddhist meditators and whales.
Persinger found that the magnetically induced seizures in the temporal lobes generate the same sort of hallucinations and mystical experiences reported by epileptic patients.
 
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