Essays on Mystical Experience

Analysis of a news story

On February 7th, 2014, I read an article about an interesting religion phenomenon in China. A lot of temples and Buddhas are built in many places in China to entice tourists, and actually earn huge profits. “The statue helped the park earn more than RMB 1.2 billion ($194 million) in 2013 according to the South China Morning Post.” as it written in the news (Ma, 2014). The temple is a sacred place, where disciples can worship their God. It becomes one of the most scenic places for tourists to visit, and is a profit machine in contemporary society, isn’t ...

- A weakness in the study design was that all of the participants sat together as they were administered the drug, and therefore could observe and tell when others were acting out of character. Their own behavior could have been affected by the behavior they saw in others around them, as a result of their expectation of how they should themselves should react. - Twenty-two of the thirty six patients who took psilocybin described having a ‘mystical experience,’ and twenty-five stated at the end of the sessions that they had had one of the most meaningful spiritual experiences of their ...

Studies that have been done using research to better understand the human consciousness have added to the knowledge of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies as well as other disciplines. Walsh and Grob point out that More than 1,000 clinical reports documented a wide array of psychological effects and therapeutic possibilities . . . findings included insight into the stubs of consciousness, the unconscious, and the relationship of different schools of psychology, motivation, self-actualization, spirituality, psychotherapy and adjunctive therapies. (1413) Roger Walsh is a Professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California in Irvine. He and his collaborators ...

The story revolves around Moses, who was an Israelite in Egypt. He led the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses had gone out to tend sheep and goats that belonged to his father-in-law, Jethro. He had taken the flock far off to the wilderness towards Mount Sinai. As he was still tending the sheep and goats, all of a sudden, an angel appeared to him in the form of a burning bush although the bush was not being consumed. Curious to understand why the bush was not being consumed, Moses went nearer to the bush to know what was happening. As he ...