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> Peter Larsen :
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> > > Asceticism by itself does not make a mystic. Meditation and focus do not
> > > make a mystic. Attempting to see the "reality" behind this false world and
> > > transcend, usually through a dedicated path that has been demonstrated by a
> > > Master, is what makes mysticism different.
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> hmf ...
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> I've had it from a few informed sources including Greg that this is either an oversimplified view of mysticism or descriptive of only *some* but not *all* mysticism. Greg has pointed out that the oriental word usually translated as "illusion" here could in many cases be translated as "reality".
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> AFAIK *not* all Gloranthan mystical practises would view reality as "false".
Not false, transient. The physical and the non-physical state
are both transient, the mystic state is not.
/Nils W