Like, it's no longer just this-- Dream. --mystical thing that you think about all the time. Yeah. Joey, when you're on site at something like a Red Rocks or a Lollapalooza, like what's your role?
since we on the subject of the third eye and so on which kind of looks mystical out of this world believe me there are many pointers to it in thisworld and in this human structure if you draw a line straight
And this is-- Katherine MacLean has written this paper she was part of their team. "Mystical experiences occasioned by the hallucinogen psilocybin lead to increases in the personality domain of openness." And again, this is starting to be a little bit more modern evidence, again, about how social change could be impacted by these psychedelic-induced mystical experiences.
And they had all found ways to produce flow and use it to amplify performance. So mystical experiences, what James called it, was out.
Good afternoon. Maestro Amjad Ali Khan is synonymous with Indian classical music and, of course, the mystical instrument that he plays, the sarod. He started playing the sarod at an early age of 6.
I'm curious about the transition from that into a very social role. the mystical aspects. But the mainstream folks in those religions probably never heard of it, even though we might look at them as some--
Because they didn't really know what it was. It felt very mystical . It was often sort of within a religion, or a tradition, or a culture which they didn't necessarily understand.
People with Parkinsonian, indeed, begin to walk like robots. I believe in the mystical mathematics of heaven, which is to say grace beyond the algorithm of causality.
And finally, I want to focus on isolated and uncontacted tribes. Uncontacted tribes hold a mystical and iconic role in our imagination. These are the people that know nature best.
So for me, it's like the overarching theme I'm always encouraging and trying to shove down everybody's throat is not look like me, act like me, dress like me. I just like mystical things.
They were synthesizing it-- to people who had cancer diagnoses, people very sick, many of them terminal, in the hopes that they would have what they call the mystical experience, a powerful spiritual experience that would change their attitude toward their death and help them essentially to die with more peace. These were all patients who were struggling with depression, anxiety, and fear-- profound fear.
And they had all found ways to produce flow and use it to amplify performance. and every so-called mystical state you can possibly imagine, prayer states, contemplative states, states of awe, trance states, psychedelic states, et cetera, et cetera.
It was just an amazing part. beautiful and mystical , because it's the Lord's Prayer.
And until very recently, most scholars have only been interested in the kind of line of Islamic philosophy that gets received in the Medieval West. or a mystical work.
can actually sort of rise up out of the text. I know it sounds mystical , but otherwise you're just describing music, or you're evaluating something, thumbs up or thumbs down, which feels sort of limited to me.
and I became an atheist I was an atheist for a couple of years and uh then I had an absolutely insane mystical experience where I felt like I was in the presence of God and it sounds like one of those uh Christian movies they make in south
there's nothing mystical about corellia rather he Advocates guile cunning and
But there is this mystical , unexplainable moment
It's this mystical thing, involves yeast-- terrifying.
was "The Mystical City of God" written by Maria de Agreda, a four-volume novelistic treatment of the Blessed Mother.
Pad Thai is this mystical , magical dish in which when I hire new cooks, I ask them to fillet a fish,
We have the mystical mist.
I love the mystical mist.
You know my mystical mist?
There's nothing mystical about it.
So he would study mystical traditions in literature.
encompassed a profound mystical sense. Quote, "Man is not as other creatures," he observed. "Without the sense of the holy,
"The most mystical new concept though was native place, which I eventually discovered was the village where my ancestors had most recently milked cows, even if recent meant
we used to optimistically mystically their assets-- visual, auditory, or textual.
design which is sometimes seen as a mystical magical art something that everybody can understand and to talk about design with through stories that
It is not even about extraordinary mystical experiences with which religion, the mystical side of religion, is associated.
And they were all looking for this mystical thing called innovation.
And we'll get to the mystical , magical piece, maybe.
you're not waiting for the mystical moment to feel awe, you're not waiting for your success to feel empowered.
So for me, it's like the overarching theme I'm always encouraging and trying to shove down everybody's throat is not look like me, act like me, dress like me. Are you guys going to make it mystical ?
which had this kind of mystical sounds.
But it's a very mystical thing, collaboration.
He pointed out that it has a huge impact on performance. But he thought it was a mystical experience. That's what he thought he was looking at.
And they had all found ways to produce flow and use it to amplify performance. Effortlessness is this feeling in mystical experiences.
But when it comes to religious or mystical experiences, they tend to keep them secret, which is quite interesting.
People like to make writing into a mystical process.
And I know that there is this mystical image of writers being these people waiting for inspiration, like kids with their tongues out under a tap.
that it's a land of mystical Traditions remote from Steely an itical
education and what what the mystical knowing does is it trans forms your
So I re-administered the same questionnaires to these people, and there's a lot of data, but I just wanted to show you that this point here. 60 or above was considered a full mystical experience. And so this was the original data, and then this one here is my long-term, 25 years later.
But there's a lot of safety information. And so this shows that the mystical experience is pretty good, pretty strong, even with people who get MDMA, which is not known for being
The motherland is magical and mystical .
We all-- the outsiders hear how mystical it is for you guys, and it turns out it's true.
And then you come to the mystical desire to touch something bigger than ourselves.
As Reid Hoffman calls himself-- a mystical atheist.