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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
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Sufi Teachings
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4. Mystical Consciousness
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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
Sufi Teachings
4. Mystical Consciousness
There is a still higher plane or experience of consciousness, different from these three experiences which everybody knows more or less, and this fourth experience is that of the mystic. It is an experience of seeing without the help of the eyes, of hearing without the help of the ears, and experiencing a plane without the help of the physical body -- an experience similar to that of the physical body and at the same time independent of it.
As soon as one arrives at this experience one begins to believe in the hereafter, for it gives one the conviction that, when the physical body is thrown off, the soul still remains, independent of the physical body and capable of seeing, living and experiencing even more freely and fully. Therefore this stage of experience is called the consciousness of the mystic.
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