The nightly Olympics have begun in the background and you are ready to write this next scene. To keep some consistency here open the diagram and I will work from it first then you can check it over with yesterday’s notes.
Definition of a mystical experience
A definition of mystical experience both congruent with the major theoretical literature and clinically applicable is as follows: the mystical experience is a transient, extraordinary experience marked by feelings of unity, harmonious relationship to the divine and everything in existence, as well as euphoria, sense of noesis (access to the hidden spiritual dimension), loss of ego functioning, alterations in time and space perception, and the sense of lacking control over the event (Allman, De La Roche, Elkins & Weathers, 1992; Hood, 1974; Lukoff & Lu, 1988).
From: meta-religion.com/Psychiatry/Religious_problems/mystical_experience.htm
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I am not sure I am happy with this but at least it is a draft. I presently feel it will really have to be re-worked. I will do so in the audio-draft.
Scene 17
One of the differences with the Dead is that the concept of Time folds into itself until it isn’t there. Without anything physical to measure, such as the blood-pumping heart, for instance, time is of no practical use other than with memory of both subjective and objective experiences and the sharing these memories of life as well as new memories made in Elysium via one’s basic personality interacting with self and/or with others.
Two reasonable questions come to mind. First, how can one have a mystical vision when dead, and the second, how can the same vision be seen by Thales some 1250 years before Merlyn sees the same vision at the same moment?
Dreaming comes naturally to the Dead and as living people subjectively know, perceptions of time and space are sometimes altered in dreamtime. A mystical experience compounds the spiritual and transcendental dimension of the more common time and space altered dream-like state.
In this case, Thales sees this vision as an omen while Merlyn sees the same vision he is struck first by what he already knows, the name, Thales, not the vision itself, and that in itself is a positive notation. Neither has any notion that the vision is being seen by anyone other than himself. The archetypes or symbols of the vision can be understood by both Thales and Merlyn because both had and have an unconscious mind. This particular mystical vision includes a placement of four cauldrons, a lizard, a snake, and a spider as well as human fingers and eyes.
As far as time placement upon opening a history book one can be in the nineteenth century on one side of the page in the twentieth century on the opposite side of the page. The Dead are without physics. Time is in memory but not in heart and soul and mind. Even the Living have a sense of this when thinking about close family or friends who are dead. Those known dead still exist subjectively within the living person’s heart and mind. For the Dead in these books, existence is subjective unless they are with another. When together one proves the existence of the other. That is how it is in this Merlyn’s Mind series.
As for this particular Thales, he will learn more about Merlyn in book six than he knew already by the conclusion of book three. The Dead have no recourse but to accept their condition. The Living appear to have no recourse but to also accept their condition until they are no longer living. There is no great divide between the Living and the Dead in these books. If there were, you wouldn’t have these words in mind. To put it more succinctly, if you want the metaphysics, the Dead are on one side of the page or the other.
Now, back to the Dead, where the rebellion continues in the mid-morning of this sixth day. Twenty-seven hundred years ago or a hundred, what makes the difference?
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