Archive of Mystical Experiences

Gopi Krishna (1903–1984) was a South Asian author who gained international recognition in 1967 with his book Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man. This was Krishna’s second book out of a total of seventeen, all of which stemmed from an extraordinary...

This entry explores the Sanskrit term ahiṃsā , meaning the absence of any intent to cause harm. It finds its earliest expression in the classical literature of the Hindu tradition, including the Vedas, the Upaniṣads, the Mahābhārata , the Bhagavad Gītā...

Since his death in 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche has become one of the most influential, most cited, and most mythologized figures in the Western philosophical tradition. Nietzsche was born in Röcken, in modern-day Saxon-Anhalt, in 1844. His father and...

The dream is visible to the man who is worth five hundred medimni , and equally to the possessor of three hundred, to the teamster no less than to the peasant who tills the boundary land for a livelihood, to the galley slave and the common laborer alike...

There are countless myths of divine transcendence and apotheosis in the history of religions: heroes set ablaze as constellations, gods born from the bones of giants, martyrs elevated through suffering and deed. However, accounts of divine descent—the...