Ideas of the Holy

• What book did Stace write?

  Mysticism and Philosophy 1960
• What years were Stace alive in?

  1886-1967
• Epistemologist

  someone who studies how we know things
• What did Stace say about God?

  "Either God is a mystery or he is nothing at all"
• What does Stace believe the goal of religious experience is?

  The mystical union with God
• Mystics

  people who lose the conscious 'I' and become one with the divine
• mysticism


  non-sensuous and non-intellectual union with the divine
• Mystical experience is not to do with:

  • "mystery"
  • The "occult"
  • Parapsychological phenomena
• Extrovertive experience

  non-sensuous unity shines through transfigured ordinary objects
• Introvertive experiences

  non-intellectual experience where awareness of the world is obliterated and there is a total suppression of sense-experience