Mystical experience implies ontologically basic elements outside the laws of physics as currently agreed upon.
Why? I don’t need to have any particular interpretation of a mystical experience to have a mystical experience. Map-territory errors are common here but they certainly aren’t inevitable.
There’s a cluster of experiences humans have had throughout history, which they’ve talked about using words like “seeing God” or “becoming one with the universe” (but again, let’s carefully separate the words from a particular interpretation of the words), and that have been traditionally associated with religions, especially with people who start religions. They can be induced in many ways, including but not limited to meditation, drugs, and sex. Fuller description here.
Sure, I’d agree that those sensations can be very real. Thanks for the explanation—I had read the term as “mystical experiences and their implied physical interpretations are real”.
Why? I don’t need to have any particular interpretation of a mystical experience to have a mystical experience. Map-territory errors are common here but they certainly aren’t inevitable.
I suspect I have a different understanding of “mystical experience” than you do—how would you define it?
There’s a cluster of experiences humans have had throughout history, which they’ve talked about using words like “seeing God” or “becoming one with the universe” (but again, let’s carefully separate the words from a particular interpretation of the words), and that have been traditionally associated with religions, especially with people who start religions. They can be induced in many ways, including but not limited to meditation, drugs, and sex. Fuller description here.
Sure, I’d agree that those sensations can be very real. Thanks for the explanation—I had read the term as “mystical experiences and their implied physical interpretations are real”.