{"id":4286,"date":"2018-08-27T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/mysticism-with-monica-4\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:14:55","slug":"mysticism-with-monica-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/mysticism-with-monica-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysticism with Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad3ac2187200b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ostia\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad3ac2187200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad3ac2187200b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Ostia\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">St. Monica&#39;s feast day is today; her son&#39;s is tomorrow. Of the various mystical vouchsafings, glimpses, and intimations recorded by St. Augustine in his <em>Confessions<\/em>, the vision at Ostia (Book 9, Chapter 10) is unique in that it is a sort of mystical duet. Mother and son achieve the vision together. Peter Kreeft <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PS45DAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA205&amp;lpg=PA205&amp;dq=mysticism+with+monica+kreeft&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=kpT_vRUT4o&amp;sig=4F7oEkJ3YtH84-zdmTQEgilCYVc&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjTxs6g443dAhVrh4sKHUtXCZgQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=mysticism%20with%20monica%20kreeft&amp;f=false\">does a good job<\/a> of unpacking the relevant passages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Kreeft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterkreeft.com\/topics-more\/surfing-stoke.htm\">here<\/a> lists fourteen features of mystical experience which comport well with my experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/03\/bradford-on-philosophy-and-wisdom.html\">Philosophy, Religion, Mysticism, and Wisdom<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Monica&#39;s feast day is today; her son&#39;s is tomorrow. Of the various mystical vouchsafings, glimpses, and intimations recorded by St. Augustine in his Confessions, the vision at Ostia (Book 9, Chapter 10) is unique in that it is a sort of mystical duet. Mother and son achieve the vision together. Peter Kreeft does a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/27\/mysticism-with-monica-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mysticism with Monica&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-mysticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}