The Psychedelic Christian
A commonplace book
The mystics knew
Long before the laboratory, the Church's saints and Scriptures spoke of tasting, seeing, and being undone by the living God. This is a growing commonplace book of those voices — kept here as witnesses that the direct experience of God is not foreign to our tradition, but at its very heart.
Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Be still, and know that I am God.
Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you.
The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Mental prayer is nothing else than an intimate friendship, a frequent conversation held alone with him who we know loves us.
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit.
Let nothing disturb you; let nothing frighten you. All things pass away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
In his will is our peace.
The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, in the public domain. This collection grows regularly — the same voices appear on Instagram.