“An interior locution is a mystical concept used by various religions, including the Roman Catholic Church. In an interior locution, a person reportedly receives a set of (usually auditory) ideas, thoughts, or imaginations from an outside spiritual source. Interior locutions are most often reported during prayers. An interior locution is a form of private revelation, but is distinct from an apparition or religious vision because no supernatural entity is reported as present during the interior locution.”
I can only speak from my own understanding here…but generally the Latin Rite Church tends more towards a Thomist" outlook - reasons and rationales for how we approach faith - and there is certainly nothing wrong with this. However the Eastern Rite Churches tend more toward what we call the “mystic” approach.
I am pretty sure you have heard the word “mystery” discussed, and mysteries are things which are mystical. Stop your thought process that mysticism refers to magic because such thought process is incorrect. It is instead a prejudice you have adopted for one reason or another. Some experts would say it is a construct of your ego for the purpose of either increasing or maintaining your ego. The ego is the worldly self we are called to die to in order to become alive in Christ.
I can assure you I am not prejudice towards what ever mysticism is, hence why I was asking a question and thus as it was a question there is no ego involved.
Locutions are thought transmissions; they can be word for word communication in your own language; the awareness that one is being communicated to by another-who’s in control of the "event’- as clear and distinct as when we’re speaking to anyone else in the normal way.
I apologize for any misunderstanding.
I’ve never heard of the word “locution” before. However, your explanation just blew my mind. I never knew what to call it. I had many of them in the past, very deep ones, and more recently ‘single thought’ ones. Wow.
So where would be the best place to start? The rosary?
If this link / website is even remotely close,
If I were to tell my psychiatrist that I was having locutions he would label me as schizophrenic. There really is a fine line between religious experiences and schizophrenia. Religious people need to be careful around atheistic psychiatrists.
I appreciate this link, as it gave a bit more understanding, but I still do not see the difference between this label of " mysticism " versus any Catholic who choses to live for Christ and serve Christ as a religious, nor do I see the difference in this concept of " mysticism " vs how Catholics celebrate the mass, go to adoration, or the basics of the Catholic faith in general.
I know what you’re getting at but, in reality, there’s no connection whatsoever. No confusion, no disorder, no delusions of grandeur in mysticism, just humble awe before gifts directly given.
I’m sure this would tend to be quite true.
Having personally experienced the difference (even though I didn’t know there was a ‘name’ for it), I can assure you there is a difference. That doesn’t make one better or worse than another. It’s a gift from God, for whatever reason He sees fit. It definitely isn’t widespread knowledge in every day Catholicism; many would have no idea what it is. Even my mother, a lifelong Catholic educated for 13 years in the Catholic schools when they were taught by nuns, doesn’t understand it.
