I opened with the much celebrated stalemate on the Western Front. For nearly four more years the generals and military technicians insisted on throwing human waves at machine gun nests. Nine million deaths later it dawned on the military aristocracy that you might need to up your own technology to match that of your enemy. There is a particular brand of anesthetic which blocks the calcium flow along the microtubules. Consciousness is disconnected from the body at that time.
Mystical experiences are a state specific event.
When I was a child I had the good fortune to spend each summer on a glacier in the Olympic National Park. B.C. The fabric of that experience was my most profound understanding of deep ecology. And I, Homo Sapien that I am, delighted in wreaking havoc on my local cliff side by throwing boulders of all conceivable sizes down towards the icefalls below. The day that boulder went was one of my first intimations that actions in this here Nirmanakaya can propel one towards stabilizing a view of the Dharmakaya. I would submit to the melting crucible of our discussion that mystical experience is an extension of the ecological matrix which bathes our senses and our consciousness each precious breath of our existence.