Mormon mysticism

[Archaea]

Many unacquainted with its real meaning will become offended by referring to anything within our culure as mystical. I don't.

For me, mysticism is anything beyond empiricism in a classical sense. Well, miracles are not reproducible in a scientific sense, so anything which fails an empirical test is in a sense mystical.

What aspects of mysticism still exist in our culture other than baby blessings and patriarchal blessings?

[BYU71]

Too many big words. I don't know what the hades you are talking about.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by BYU71

Too many big words. I don't know what the hades you are talking about.

Unlike the sesquipedalian penchant for others toward vanglorious speech, the first post was anything but that.

[SoonerCoug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

What aspects of mysticism still exist in our culture other than baby blessings and patriarchal blessings?

Temple visions.

"I see dead people."

I've heard plenty of those stories.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

Temple visions.

"I see dead people."

I've heard plenty of those stories.

As have I, including one from my own, sensible sister. It is simple enough. She was doing baptisms for the dead, and after the baptizer thought he was finished, she believed she saw another personage, and encouraged the baptizer to continue, he then realized he'd skpped over a name and finished.

My sister is not one to be extremely mystical, but she has never deviated from that rendition. I have never had such a mystical experience and probably never will, though early on in my membership I had hoped for one.

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Unlike the sesquipedalian penchant for others toward vanglorious speech, the first post was anything but that.

I guess it was "empiricism in a classical sense" that through me off.

[SoonerCoug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

As have I, including one from my own, sensible sister. It is simple enough. She was doing baptisms for the dead, and after the baptizer thought he was finished, she believed she saw another personage, and encouraged the baptizer to continue, he then realized he'd skpped over a name and finished.

My sister is not one to be extremely mystical, but she has never deviated from that rendition. I have never had such a mystical experience and probably never will, though early on in my membership I had hoped for one.

I've never seen dead people either, although I've seen plenty of old people who seemed to be pretty close.

[YOhio]

Many believe that garments provide physical protection from injury.

[SoonerCoug]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Many believe that garments provide physical protection from injury.

There was a Marriott in my MTC district that kept talking about how no missionary would ever be injured or die if he would live by the rules and wear his garments. I told him that this sort of thinking was harmful, because good missionaries get injured and die all the time.

He hunted me down in the celestial room of the Provo Temple. I was relaxing on the couch and he came up to me and exclaimed: "SEE, they DO protect you!" Then twilight zone music started playing in my head.

A few months later as I was serving in Russia, one of the best missionaries in our mission was stabbed and murdered.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by SoonerCoug

There was a Marriott in my MTC district that kept talking about how no missionary would ever be injured or die if he would live by the rules and wear his garments. I told him that this sort of thinking was harmful, because good missionaries get injured and die all the time.

He hunted me down in the celestial room of the Provo Temple. I was relaxing on the couch and he came up to me and exclaimed: "SEE, they DO protect you!" Then twilight zone music started playing in my head.

A few months later as I was serving in Russia, one of the best missionaries in our mission was stabbed and murdered.

I guess you showed him.