Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Flourish As You Age
MIND - Mysticism: What Is It?
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A mystical experience, similar to the "enlightenment" described by Buddhists and other contemplative practices, involves a disillusion of self and a sense of unity with something grander than ourselves. We describes this something-grander-than-ourselves, in various ways - as God, as Tao, as the natural order and so on.
In this episode we explore the following topics
- Common characteristics of a mystical experience
- Iain McGilchrists hemisphere hypothesis
- An account of a mystical experience from Clare Booth Luce
- Introverted and Extroverted types of unity
- The power of metaphors: "The Kingdom of God," as an example
- No Self: the disillusion of self.
- Mathieu Ricard and Wolf Singer's book Beyond The Self
- Different approaches to enlightenment, Buddhist, mystical and hemispheric
- Unity with God (etc.) is a process of becoming.
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