obis. mystical experience is a massive umbrella category. you'd have to unpack what you mean by attentional skill of self-realization
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Replying to @agleig
As an “umbrella category,” the notion of mystical experience leaves a shit ton to be desired, IMO.
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Replying to @Kalieezchild
Don't worry there's tons of academic books written in the topic Jody. I was referring to Jeff's article that the mystical is not the ethical
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Replying to @agleig
I know. However, much of what is referred to as “mystical” is based in the folk ideas that enlightenment = being one with God, being one with everything, or being nothing as in a kind of non-existence. They are all poppycock, but they still define and drive the category.
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Replying to @Kalieezchild
Maybe for practitioners but as the co-chair of the Mysticism group of the American Academy of Religion, scholars are doing a lot of different things in the subfield. To be honest though, I'm not much interested in non-duality these days
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Replying to @agleig @Kalieezchild
Out of curiosity how much of your studies are acedemically oriented vs practice oriented? Only reason I ask is because it seems the more people I meet in acedemia in this feel the less seem to have an actual practice and it boggles my mind!
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Replying to @SilasDay9 @Kalieezchild
My academic work is academically oriented but I do try and write it to be accessible to practitioners who are interested in the social and historical context to their practice.
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Replying to @agleig @Kalieezchild
Interesting! I think that is a very important aspect to understand for overall growth. I am kinda on the other side of the spectrum focusing on teaching people how to enter concentration Jhanas/vipassana Jhanas and understand them i terms of path!
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Replying to @SilasDay9 @Kalieezchild
Erik Braun & Natalie Quli are two scholars who have written on contemporary jhana practice from an academic perspective. Might be useful
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Fast search found this on Leigh Brasington's web site Multiple Buddhist Modernisms: Jhāna in Convert Theravāda Natalie Quli http://www.leighb.com/Jhana_in_Theravada_Quli.pdf …
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Replying to @_StevenFan @SilasDay9 and
Pretty good review of the views of many western Jhana teachers.
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Siddhis = a marketing device for corrupt gurus.
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