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 MYSTICISM  /  MAGIC 

While things and events appear to be separate in space & time, I believe the perception of discrete objects and the passage of time are illusions.  My words fail to describe the Oneness of everything and the connectedness that I am conscious of. Through this connection comes knowledge not available via normal cognition or human senses, which perceive explicate manifestations of implicate Oneness as dynamic interplay of opposites. By finding balance and losing ego one perceives more: many feel grasped by a power not their own, a few claim experiencing mystical union with God! (Note: Many mystics possess “ability to alter one’s consciousness at will”--one way to define magic. “Use of means such as incantations, amulets, and ritual” is another. Both are needed to begin discussing the concept of magic.)

Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 62 entries

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #7A:  Mysticism

Mysticism  (from online encyclopedia)
New Age (from online encyclopedia)
Theosophy (from online encyclopedia)
Transcendentalism and Spirituality
How to Recognize a Mystical Experience
New Age Spirituality
the Mystica  (an on-line encyclopedia of the occult, mysticism, magic, paranormal and more)
Inner Self Magazine (spirituality articles)
The New Age Movement (report for Methodist Church)
Science and Mysticism in the 20th Century
The Seeker Books (Book Reviews and News)
Seeker -- for the seeker of spiritual truth and personal growth
The Journal of the Mindshift Institute
Global Consciousness Project (from online encyclopedia)
Mystics and Scientists Conferences (links to past conferences put on by The Scientific and Medical Network)
Infinity and the Mind, by Rudy Rucker (2005 book by mathematics professor / sci fi writer,  from Princeton Univ. Press)
The Field, by Lynn McTaggart (website for book promoting belief that human minds are part of a quantum mind)
The Self Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, by A. Goswami, etal 
Quantum Consciousness ("the new frontier in brain / mind science" researcher Stuart Hameroff's website) 
Consciousness in the Cosmos (essays on the Stoa del Sol website by Beatrix Murrell)
"The Emerging New Worldview," by Paul Helfrich (paper re: conscious creation and "consciousness is cool")
Global Advanced Trait Description: Mystical
The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, by Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli (more on this 1952 book) 
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity, by L. Graham & J. Kantor
"The Forgotten Song" (about the mystical experience of unity, from 1975 book A Course in Miracles read at Google Books)
"The Experience of Unity" by Kurt Dressler (1997 talk by Swiss physics professor)
The Mystic Vision (website of author Anne Baring)
The Thoroughly Modern Mysticism of Matthew Fox, by Wayne G. Boulton  (1990 article by professor of religion)
Modern Mysticism, by Michael Gellert (review of book by California based Jungian analyst)
Sensory Experiences in Mystical Traditions (2008 UCTV program)
Explaining Deja Vu, by Michael D. Lemonick (August 9, 2007 Time article about neuroscientists' insights)
The Human Condition, by Kenneth Collier (2007 essay from UU perspective) 
I and Thou, by Martin Buber (classic 1923 described in online encyclopedia article) 
Ego Death and Self Control Cybernetics
quotes related to mysticism in world religions

More to Explore --Worldview Theme #7B: Magic

Magic -- Paranormal  (from online encyclopedia)
Shamanism (from online encyclopedia)
Wishful Thinking (from online encyclopedia)
Tarot (from online encyclopedia)
Astrology (from online encyclopedia)
Numerology (from online encyclopedia)
Alchemy (from online encyclopedia)
Consciousness (from online encyclopedia)
The Ecology of Magic, by David Abram  
The Wicca Bible: The Definitive Guide to Magic and the Craft, by A. Gallagher (Google Books / read portions of this book)  
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, by Mircea Eliade (classic 1964 book, from Princeton Univ. Press)
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran  (read excerpts of this 2004 book)
American Society for Psychical Research
Out of the Body Experience -- A Powerful Tool for Self Research
Paranormal Phenomena
Pseudoscience (from online encyclopedia)
Divination Using Crystals
The Basics of Astrology and Numerology
Magic and Illusion
Power of the Shaman -- Where Does It Come From? 
Shamanism Training in North America
Center for Spirituality & Healing (research, Shaman outreach, etc. on this University of Minnesota website)
Gypsy Magic
History of Fortune Telling (from Parapsychology & Magic website)
quotes related to magic

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