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Now, a trancelike state they define – the text defines – as focused islands of attention on an otherwise passive intellect.

Now, a trancelike state they define – the text defines – as focused islands of attention on an otherwise passive intellect.

   

   

*[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_100#100:5._CONVERSION_AND_MYSTICISM 100:5.8] There is great danger associated with the habitual practice of religious daydreaming; mysticism may become a technique of reality avoidance, albeit it has sometimes been a means of genuine spiritual communion. Short seasons of retreat from the busy scenes of life may not be seriously dangerous, but prolonged isolation of personality is most undesirable. Under no circumstances should the trancelike state of visionary consciousness be cultivated as a religious experience.

*[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_100#100:5._CONVERSION_AND_MYSTICISM 100:5.8] There is great danger associated with the habitual practice of religious daydreaming; mysticism may become a technique of reality avoidance, albeit it has sometimes been a means of genuine spiritual communion. Short seasons of retreat from the busy scenes of life may not be seriously dangerous, but prolonged isolation of personality is most undesirable. Under no circumstances should the trancelike state of visionary consciousness be cultivated as a religious experience.

*[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_100#100:5._CONVERSION_AND_MYSTICISM 100:5.9] The characteristics of the mystical state are diffusion of consciousness with vivid islands of focal attention operating on a comparatively passive intellect. All of this gravitates consciousness toward the subconscious rather than in the direction of the zone of spiritual contact, the superconscious.]

*[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_100#100:5._CONVERSION_AND_MYSTICISM 100:5.9] The characteristics of the mystical state are diffusion of consciousness with vivid islands of focal attention operating on a comparatively passive intellect. All of this gravitates consciousness toward the subconscious rather than in the direction of the zone of spiritual contact, the superconscious.]

   

   

The danger there is that the consciousness can so readily become stream of consciousness and roll downhill into the subconscious, there to find all manner of dalliances and divers’ lusts that have nothing to do with much of anything except perhaps a jolly good time from the mundane routine of your own thoughts, a step up from what’s on television, or a grand way to think about something besides what you ought to be thinking about, such as your homework, or [in short] other means of procrastination.

The danger there is that the consciousness can so readily become stream of consciousness and roll downhill into the subconscious, there to find all manner of dalliances and divers’ lusts that have nothing to do with much of anything except perhaps a jolly good time from the mundane routine of your own thoughts, a step up from what’s on television, or a grand way to think about something besides what you ought to be thinking about, such as your homework, or [in short] other means of procrastination.