stace

• Stace's account of mystical experiences:

  • non-sensuous + non-intellectual union with the divine
  • God is either a mystery or nothing at all
  • goal of all religious experience = union with God
  • mysticism = nothing to do with the occult, telepathy, visionary or auditory experiences
  • saw 2 types of mystical experiences = extrovertive + introvertive
• introvertive mystical experiences: (philosopher = Stace)

  • ultimate mystical experience
  • sense experience = totally supressed
  • no awareness of the world
  • non-spatial, non-temporal = immeasurable
  • ineffable experience
  • sense of absolute peace
• extrovertive mystical experiences: (philosopher = Stace)

  • halfway-house to the introvertive experience
  • sense experience = still active, but objects are transfigured so non-sensuous unity shines through them