Human Development
Transcendental experience
Description:
This form of consciousness is one characteristic of the mystic experience. The individual loses the usual sense of time and space and is not oriented in terms of any three-dimensional perception of his environment or any sense of past and future. He experiences a sense of timelessness and spacelessness which are felt to be related to the concept of eternity and infinity respectively.The normal identity-anchored, space-time-bound experience is recognized by contemporary research to be historically and ontologically relative, as well as being relative from a cultural and socio-economic perspective. The consensual and interpersonal confirmation it offers does however provide a sense of ontological security whose validity is experienced by the individual as self-validating, despite the knowledge that historically, ontologically, socio-economically and culturally the apparent absolute validity is an illusion.
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