Mystical experience in 2025

Claims of mystical experience are not popular in our culture! 

There are bad and good reasons for this: 

A bad reason is that (in a world without God, purpose or meaning) mystical experiences are always and necessarily false (e.g. insane, dumb or dishonest); because there is No Such Thing. 

A good reason is that those who claim mystical experiences often claim that it has given them knowledge and authority - such that "we" ought to  believe and do... whatever the mystic tells us. 

However, when all is said and done; it seems to me that nothing is more important in life than real mystical experiences. Even when (as usual) these are infrequent and pretty mild or incomplete; nonetheless, they are "what it's all about". 

On the other hand, there does seem to be a strong tendency for many people to deal with their mystical experiences in mistaken and adverse ways - for instance, by trying to persuade other people and convince them that a mystical experience was really-real, and true, and really-happened...

Or to get hung-up on explaining the experience in terms of causes, meanings, implications etc. - explanations that tend to get more and more complicated. 

Yet it is surely valid to seek an understanding of any mystical experience. 

But for understanding ourselves, primarily. And not in relation to other people, and the world. 

And in seeking understanding, it seems likely that the real answer is neither complex nor abstract; but some-thing very simple - easy enough for a child to grasp.