Mystical - Peak Experiences

The mystical or as Maslow called them Peak Experiences, are experiences mostly written in philosophical traditions, such as the Buddha becoming enlighten.  They also can be what many people feel in their religious practices.  The peak experiences are moments of complete bewilderment of how the universe around us works, giving the Self-Actualizer a deep understanding of the greater good and fueling them to continue on the path of problem solving.  The feeling is expansive and delicious, once experienced it seems the fear of uncertainty is abandoned, welcoming life’s mysteries with zeal, and staying focused on the solution.  In these occurrences dichotomies fuse together, like the feelings of being completely helpless while simultaneously feeling powerful, yet fully integrated.  

"Feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of ecstasy and wonder and awe, the loss of placement in time and space with, finally, the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened, so that the subject was to some extent transformed and strengthened even in his daily life by such experiences." - Maslow

These peak (mystical) experiences are episodes all humans have felt, but the Self-Actualizer seems to have more than the typical person.  This is why the Self-Actualizer is able to attain the unattainable and achieve the impossible.  This magnificent feeling, which Maslow also called “Oceanic”, because it comes in waves and varies in intensity and frequency, also affords the Self-Actualizer to be more playful and they can lose their sense of time and space.  Maslow saw that the after having a peak experience people are less neurotic, see themselves in a healthier light, have a better perspective of others and their relationship with people, have a improved view of the world, become more creative, spontaneous and expressive, their enjoyment of the experience creates a desire to repeat the incident, and overall they see that life is valuable.