Techniques for Mystical Awakening (6)

Seekers of spiritual experiences can achieve a mystical awakening by using a variety of techniques, including sounds, dancing, meditation, and praying. Sounds have been used throughout history to help achieve a mystical state of mystical awakening and communion with the inner spirit. Instruments, including drums and gongs have aided with the mysticism seeker’s ability to leave their daily thoughts behind and have a mystical awakening where they become one with the divine state. Chanting is another technique used by mystics to reach a higher mystical awareness. Repeating wordless melodies can allow multiple levels of mystical awakening to occur. Often a meditative trance state is achieved while reciting the chant leading to a mystical awakening with the deeper oneness of the universe.

Dancing is an alternative technique to achieve a mystical awakening, where the dancers focus on their movements and on the presence of other dancers, to create a deeper mystical connection of divine unity with all present. Dancing techniques are often accompanied by music, praying, or chanting, which also helps to free the mind to achieve a mystical awakening.
Meditation or the calming of the mind is another powerful technique often used by mystics to reach a state of stillness and mystical awakening so the transmission and reception of divine communication can occur. Letting things fall away from the mind leads us to a state of mystical awakening or oneness where mystical information can be received.

Prayer often includes meditation as a component, or it can be used in conjunction with meditation to achieve mystical awakening. Foundational prayer techniques allow one to enter a state of mystical awakening and oneness with the divine. This prayer state and mystical awakening can occur anywhere and at any time and does not have to be verbalized, if the prayer is in conscious loving union with the spiritual oneness of the universe.

Featured in this series: Fr. Richard Rohr, Timothy Freke, Rabbi Aubrey Glazer of Congregation Beth Shalom, Mary Reed, Lama Palden Drolma, Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami at the Hindu Monastery in Kauai, Dr. Carol Weyland Conner Murshida of Sufism Reoriented, Sufi Hadi Paul Reicherz, Shankina Reinhertz, Pamela Desvernie, Itara O’connell, and Guy Douglas.

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