My Most Recent Mystical Experience

For me, a mystical experience does not necessarily mean a religious one, but rather a revelation of a deeper, extended, or more hidden aspect of social reality. There are certain types of music, which induce deep, spiritual, mystical experiences in me. One such CD, is called Milk and Kisses, by The Cocteau Twins. It is not my favourite album by The Cocteau Twins, as Treasure is my favourite album by them, followed by Blue Bell Knoll, but it's the one album which has the most spiritual and profoundest effect upon me. It's also an album which I have to play over and over again, for it to have the full effect.

The last time I listened to Milk and Kisses, I listened to it for about three hours, whilst in a very receptive and meditative state of mind, and I fell into a kind of trance, and into a state of mind inbetween sleeping and waking. With my eyes closed, and being half-asleep, I saw people I knew, in the room, and very briefly conversed with them, even though they weren't really there, and the whole experience was very pleasant and reassuring. One person I saw was an old woman, who I'd not seen before and didn't know, and who said she had been occasionally watching over me.

What occurred to me about all of this, was that it opened my mind up to a reality which exists beneath sleep, and is a set of weavings of our connections with known and unknown others. It is the internalisation of reality, and a basis of another kind of social reality, internalised into our experience and mind.

I used to drink and socialise with an half-Irish friend, and because I was with him in both experience and mind, in the ways I related and connected to him, I was able to absorb and internalise his thoughts, emotions, and experiences, through a kind of transference, and now I know what it was like when he used to talk, shout at, and see people who weren't there. I now have a deeper and wider understanding of this, that there is much more of an aware and active state of mind beneath sleep, but which we only partially become aware of by experiencing dreams whilst we sleep.