Extra Reading- Buddy Powers

This semester I am taking a class on mysticism with Dr. Rose. We are focusing mostly on the Upanishads and Plotinus but also had a week long section on Christian mysticism. I have been thinking about how mystical experience and myth may connect. A mystical experience is one that is internal, non-quantitative, and non-sublatable (Rose). The last of these attributes is where myth and mysticism cross paths. Non-sublatable means that there is no deeper level of knowledge that could negate the thing in question. For the mystical experience, this means that the experience itself, if it is genuine, cannot be undermined by any other piece of knowledge. I am reminded of Chesterton's On Fairies, in which he asserts that any Fairyland cannot not be underminded by a law of our reality. There is no other level of knowledge that can invalidate an aspect of that mythical world, because according to Chesterton it is another world intirely. In this sense, myth is also non-sublatable. It validates itself by its own rules.