Mysticism & the Spiritual Heights | Our Sunday Talks

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Podcast Excerpt: Religion in its highest and most intense manifestation results in the spiritual enlightenment we call mysticism. It is an emotional perception and personal experience of the immediate presence of God. As the heights of poetry and the other arts have been reached by a Shakespeare, a Beethoven, a Michelangelo, so have the heights of communion with God been attained by geniuses of the spiritual realm.

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1:29.5	Welcome to our Sunday talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast.
1:39.4	Today's talk was edited and adapted from Happiness Road by Alice Hagen Rice, published in 1942. Religion in its highest and most intense manifestation results in the spiritual
1:52.8	enlightenment we call mysticism.
1:56.4	It is an emotional perception and personal experience of the immediate presence of God.
2:04.1	As the heights of poetry and the other arts have been reached by a Shakespeare, a Beethoven,
2:11.4	a Michelangelo. So have the heights of communion with God been attained by geniuses of the spiritual realm.
2:21.1	For it happens sometimes that someone who is far advanced in the life of the spirit
2:26.2	transcends the physical self and attains to a vital relationship with the divine.
2:33.9	And having done so, they are thus enabled
2:37.0	to reach higher levels than ordinary people. The mystical experience of such a person
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