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    Can A Mystic Know God?

    I'm asserting that millennia of mystical tradition is fundamentally sound. You're asserting that you alone think it is not, and that you want to prove it all wrong someday. And you are thinking that, if mystics were not so headstrong, they would agree with you. :facepalm: You are willing to...
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    Dealing with demons/evil spirits....

    Since this is the discussion, not debate, forum, I will not reply to those who are treating it as a debate forum. There are unspiritual things as well as spiritual things. It's hard to not eventually encounter such things as a mystic. I prefer to call them "(spiritual) fleas" rather than...
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    Can A Mystic Know God?

    I rely on words like "the Ultimate" because the naming option I'd really like, which is silence, is not conducive to communications. I disagree. There most certainly is a limit. It works very much like a limit does in calculus. And as in mathematical analysis, you only get unapproachable...
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    Can A Mystic Know God?

    "Know" and "experience" are words from an ordinary consciousness that does not presume to know the Ultimate. Is not trying to fit the mystical experience into either of these words like trying to fit the ocean into a teacup? Of necessity, we use words to communicate, and both "know" and...
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    Just a freelance mystic here

    It means it was the nearest word in the dictionary I can find to whatever it is that I am without having to make something up that makes absolutely no sense to anyone but myself ;) Once upon a time ago, I was an angry and depressed teenager staring out my bedroom window plotting to bring a...
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    Is there a need for religion?

    People clump. They clump into groups that like baseball players who wear one color of hat so that they can hate baseball players who wear another color of hat. They clump to go watch birds together. They clump to quietly read books together. Young people clump depending on whether their...
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    Just a freelance mystic here

    Just for the record: we've had a vet crisis (and subsequent financial crisis) here. Anyone looking for the aforementioned blog that cannot be named needs to look for it on hardc ores pirituality at blogspot, at least until I can dredge up the cash to pay for both it and the parrot (I figured I'd...
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    Which Choice Best Describes Your Faith (or lack thereof)?

    Other. I'm what generally goes by the name "spiritual, but not religious", though I am a specific something within that category. About forty years ago, as I stood by my window, depressed and angry and thinking of doing great harm to those who had harmed me, I was wordlessly handed a set of...
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    Satan has no physical form, assures Catholic exorcist

    I have seen nasty invisible stuff. If one is a mystic, sooner or later one runs into it. It can be seen to influence humans in ways that could be called evil. So I don't doubt the existence of what some religions call Satan, or devils, or demons, and I think that the experience this priest said...
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    Mystics: Which god and religion is right?

    There are good reasons that you are not getting what appears to be a "straight" answer from anyone here. Lets take a random common object, say, a dirty sock. Try to describe those socks in their particulars, so that a space alien or a mrmber of an isolated tribe in the Amazon would be able to...
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    What religions have ritual cleansing?

    Buddhists often?/always? wash their feet before practice (sorry, I don't know the extent of this practice, or whether it's true only in certain sects, I simply have seen this more than once). Wiccans have ritual baths. Jains bathe before prayer. Sikhs have baptism. Zoroastrians have a...
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    Just a freelance mystic here

    Let me try again then, though I'm not sure spaces around dots will do, as I eliminated any trace of url-edness the last time without success. Maybe what I need to do is add gratuitous characters between other things. I lack imagination when it comes to web handles. Sometimes I pick the name of...
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    Just a freelance mystic here

    Every way I can come up with to explain where it comes from comes back with " You are only allowed to post URLs to other sites after you have made 15 posts or more." That's even after I have stripped everything even hinting at the existence of urls from the post. (Really, I'm not trying to spam...
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    New and lost

    I'm not a Christian, but is it not a basic part of Christianity that it is impossible for humans not to sin? That Christians are "found", not through their own miserable efforts, but through the grace and forgiveness of Christ? Might you not need to stop trying so hard to find salvation and let...
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    Just a freelance mystic here

    I found this place while following a chain of links as I investigated the (in)authenticity of some gullable friends' latest high priced teacher of wisdom. It seemed like abn interesting place to stop by, and so, my investigation done, that's what I'm doing.
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    Why not just Buddhism?

    Westerners and intellectuals rarely realize that the pure philosophical Buddhism they read of in the West or sometimes hear through Western or Westernized promoters of Buddhism is not typical of Buddhism on the whole. It is analogous to someone from another culture coming into the books of...
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