Transcendent state and states of 'normal' experience

Fiorenzo, Tassotti

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Jugoslavije

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2002-2021/11/05/08:59:59

Mystic states or transcendent states are found in one gathering of human capabilities and experiences which are allowed and known in all cultures which are changed in the process of human history; they are not recognized only by the western scientific culture. The subject of this work is hermeneutic analysis of reports and classical texts on mystics and transcendent states which different cultures have leaved. Result of this analysis is that mystical states are in their nature impossible to describe so that mystics are forced to communicate their experience through descriptions of metaphorical type. This happens because language, as many authors as Vygotski are saying, is not only mean for communicating, but is the base of thinking and determines the structure of reality and usual conscious experience. Language and her thinking Grammatik's' are in the basis of the basic human alienation which have been individualized by Lacan, Heidegger, and is pointed out by all texts on mystics and transcendence. Transcendence can be defined as everything which in human experience is not rational, I the sense that it is not explainable through inventory of categories and semantic structures by which usually reality is operationalized. This type of description is only a system of pictures and shows which are a part of the inner memories activated through reactions of the sight organs on the external world. The exercises which the mystical philosophical schools recommend have the purpose of transformation ways of experiencing reality by bringing man in the state of contact here and now which enables the appearance of little states of transcendence and intensity which are realized through many small everyday excitements: for any pleasant smell, looking the face of another person, etc., These experiences with the time initiate a hyperbolic process which intensifies consciousness and brings, according to testimonies of mystics, to the great transcendent experience