The (In)sanity of the Sane World

Posted on February 9, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Fake Culture |

The more it goes, the more relevant the mystic experience seems to be. Not just to the ’spiritual’ side of things, but also to just about every aspect of life. What is the ‘mystic experience’? Well to me it is attaining complete awareness of oneself and our relationship with nature and the universe. Does that sound a little too airy-fairy?

I am not trying to make an intellectual statement here, in fact there appears to be an on-going war between intellectualism and the mystical. The mystical is about an awareness of direct experience and this is exactly why it cannot be understood from a purely intellectual point of view. Intellectualism tries to view itself as objective and detached from the world - that in itself is an hallucination, for the reason that through the simple act of observation itself means you become a part of the experience.

This is the attitude that is constantly perpetuated upon the populations, you hear it from the media, the governments and the corporations. It is most apparent when things are reduced to impersonal statistics; when numbers are used to convey the experiences of groups of people. It is the objectification of life - translating it from an experience into a number.

What is a measure of sanity? The mystical experience may grant someone prescient ability, or an intuitive awareness of anothers actions and thoughts. Statistical objectification would suggest that the mystical experience isn’t possible because it is numerically improbable. One of these attitudes is based upon experience, whilst the other cleanly attempts to distance itself from any form of direct experience.

What is a measure of insanity? Surely that would be dis-association from reality…