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Re: The Doors of Perception

Nov 14, 2005, 03:09

Can a non-believer have a mystical or spiritual experience?

Nice question!
Reading it I realise that I'm thinking that ONLY a non-believer can have a truly transcendent experience.
It seems to me that beliefs get in the way of being really REALLY open to the mysterious whateveritisness.

So the next question is
can a believer have a mystical experience that is not limited by their beliefs ?

The experiences I've had have been so much bigger than that bit of me that believes things, I can't imagine how the experience and the beliefs could co-exist.
Be interesting to hear.
The people I've met who seem to be in a sustained mystical state do not seem to have any beliefs.

The importance of place?
The bottom first fell out of my finite universe at a hill fort and ancient trackway in Northumberland. Somehow its like these places draw my attention to what is already here everywhere.

And what was all that about book learning and dogma ?

I'd rather stick with Nature thanks !

cx

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