There is Nothing "Mystical" about "Mystical" Experiences

It is now my experience that the so-called mystical experiences are neither magical nor "mystical"; they are not reserved for the revered and holy, nor are they complex and difficult for the common mortal to experience and understand. They are pretty anti-climactic.

I went on another trip alone in the desert, this trip lasted 6 days. My "self" wanted a "better" spiritual experience than the last time I was out in the desert. How sad that the greedy ego worked its way into this too. My "self" was feeling precious. So special. "On a noble path to enlightenment".

That attitude, that ego, only leads one to ruins.

I had to learn to be humble.

The self made me think I already knew. "I" read about things and called it knowing. But "I" knew nothing. "I" was merely a conductor of information, as it passed through me like an electric current. "I" did not have that knowing, or knowledge, "I" merely had the knowing of others that I had read about or heard. I confused that for knowing. I thought I knew the truth. As I tried to impress others and myself. I was a liar.

I felt that religion, theology, and spirituality were things to be debated and studied. Perhaps rituals needs study, but the truth is experienced. It is not learned, it is not rationalized. It just is, different for each, yet the same for everyone.

I had to experience it by quelling my "self". For it was full of worry and fears and anger and love and greatness and pettiness of intelligence and stupidity. It was what my body mind had constructed over many years, to make "me" feel I'm separate and unique. My "identity".

Once the self was calmed I realized that Mystical experiences are a sham.

There is nothing "mystical" about them.

If you had weak eyesight and you put on prescription glasses, and now you can see things clearer for what they are; would you think this was a mystical experiences?

If you stood next to the food you were cooking and lowered the heat before it burnt. Would you call this attentiveness a mystical experience?

There's no mystery to the so-called mystical experience. The ability to understand your own truth is available to one and all.

Anyone seeking nirvana and ecstasy will be disappointed.