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reading etc. There are cases of Extra Sensory Perception (E.S.P.) Many of these things have been established beyond doubt by the work of Rhine, Soal, Carrington, Tyrell etc. These are "The weak links in the armour of locators materialistic scientists 27 The data of Psychical Research show that there are energies to be reckoned with which are different from those which are seen in the psychic order. Sooner or later the recognition of these will inevitably dispel the prevading materialism of the West and would offer a bridge between Science and Spirituality:
Mystical experiences, like the E.S.P. and T.K. Pheno mena, are again a problem to the Western materialism. These experiences cannot b; brushed aside as mere phantoms of imagination or illusions Man is not only his body and mind. There are different levels of realityphysical, mental, intuitive and spiritual. Mysticism is the conscious contact of the centre of a human soul with spiritual Reality. It may be permanent state in the case of great saints and Yogis, it may be an occasional transcient experience with lesser folk, it may be no more than a hope or ideal for most of us.' 28 “There are transceаdent experiences given from time to time to "ordinary people”'29 and in these the isolated ego seems to be once more in its native country and able to see with the eye of the Spirit. Dr. Radhakrishna also speaks of Spirit in Man. William James has bis entire book on "The Varities of Religious Experiences (Longmans, 1919, Ch. XIX).
If Mystic experiences of great seers and saints are declared to be false and unreal, there will be unreality around our life also. There is difference both in the attitude and language of the mystics and the ordinary pepole. While the ordinary man sees and speaks of conflict, unrest, suffering, chance and separeteness, the mystic speaks of harmony, peace, perfection, meaningfulness and unity. It was Newton's belief tbat God had so designed the world that "nothing is done without this continual governinent and inspection". Newton believed that he had
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