Mystical experience is the direct apprehension of inner truths. Conventional doctrines are the corruption of those truths, formulated by people of a lower level of religious inspiration, influenced by social, cultural, or political factors. Thus perennial philosophers claim that they are justified in ignoring conventional doctrines and drawing their raw data only from reports of mystical ...
It's not some sort of mystic spaciousness where you get in touch with the Buddha-nature or anything like that. It's simply the background awareness. It's there. And there's the question of being consciously in touch with it, being consciously open with it, or not. When you're more in touch with the background, you begin to notice the point, or the focus of the mind: here, there ...
"Small wonder it is then that the mystic, trying to describe his experience, can do it only in a local, culture-bound, ignorance-bound, language-bound way, confusing his description of the experience with whatever explanation of it and phrasing of it is most readily available to him in his time and in his place." 28
