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Methods are nearly identical.
Objectives are very different.
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Meditation v Prayer
Immersion in nature v communication with God
Impersonal loss of conscious awareness v Personal communication with God
No extrinsic aim, good in itself v Aiming at communion with God (theosis)
Loss of subjective ego v Becoming true self
Loss of sense of location v Experience of self in divine presence
A particular subjective experience v Conformity with objectivity
Oneness v Duality
Unity in the world v Unity only in the next world
Timelessness v Plan
Becoming undifferentiated v Becoming unique
Indifference to death v Death as transition
Nature as sovereign, eternal v Nature as time-limited, to be remade
Submission, self-sufficiency v Humility, asking for help
We are nothing v We are (potentially) Sons of God
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