3,185 words (≈ 13 minutes)
Some mystics, following their transcendent spiritual experiences, claim unity or oneness with God - to the point of declaring that they themselves are Divine or an Incarnation of God. This short essay explores this theme of Deification and asks if such mystics and gurus are correvt in their assertions.
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-11-28
Word count: 3,185 words (≈ 13 minutes)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: transpersonal, God, Spirit, Spirituality, transcendence, Gurus, advaita, Non-duality, Non-Dualism, Deification, mysticism, Spiritual masters, Oneness with God, Unity with God, self-realization, enlightenment
Pilgrim Simon has spent forty years exploring spirituality. He gained a degree in psychology and post graduate qualifications in counselling and was for a time a member of the British Psychological Society, contributing to their Transpersonal Psychology Journal. He has had a number of mystical experiences and has also been diagnosed as Bi-Polar or Manic-Depressive. It is this set of circumstances that contribute to the themes of his studies, and enable him to look at his subjects with personal insight. His studies draw not only from personal experience but also from many religious and spiritual traditions as well as from psychology, psychiatry and Transpersonal psychology including thinkers such as Shankara, Ibn Al-Arabi, Meister Eckhart, David Waite, George Kelly, Ken Wilber, Arthur Deikman and Karen Armstrong. Some studies are purely Christian in content, whilst others draw on a wider spiritual perspective
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