A Descriptive And Comparative Analysis: The Mystic Experience

In the book, The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis there are several different methods for the traditional approaches to mysticism and the current thinking about the subject today. The first approach to mysticism is a philosophical analysis that uses reason to define mysticism. For example, a philosopher named Stace came up with two techniques called extrovertive and introvertive as a process to determine mystical experiences. A extrovertive and introvertive mystical event both have emotions of “feeling of the holy, sacred, or divine” in common ( Paper, pg. 54.). However, both extrovertive and introvertive differ on oneness and unifying vision. Introvertive mystical experiences focus on pure consciousness, and nontemporal and nonspatial events. Meanwhile, extrovertive events are focused on the oneness in all things in life.
In addition, transpersonal psychology emphasizes studying spiritual development and practices different spiritual activities in psychotherapy. Moreover, the founders of the transpersonal psychology movement undiscriminatingly trusted individual testimony from non-Western religions, while having a bias opinion against western religions.
A Sociological analyses method of mysticism is the conduction of a survey that evaluated the participants’ religious and psychic experiences. Moreover, the survey was meant to extinguish how many of the individuals had a mystical experience based on thoroughly questioning them. The survey was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center with 1500 respondents. Consequently, the study confirmed that the paranormal is common in the modern era and that most of the population has experienced mystical events. Additionally the survey verified that the people that perform mystical experiences are not mentally