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376Pacific Worldanalysis of mystical practices as ways to “‘crash’ our linguistic system”leading to an experience of the “non-linguistic.” L. Short, “Mysticism,Mediation, and the Non-Linguistic,” Journal of the American Academy ofReligion 63/4 (1995): p. 665.206. Jantsch, Universe, p. 73.207. Janstsch, Universe, p. 73; Erich Jantsch, “From Self-Reference to Self-Transcendence: The Evolution of Self-Organization Dynamics,” in Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures, eds. William C. Schieve and PeterM. Allen (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982), p. 347. See also Combs,Radiance, p. 251.208. On meditative experience as a realization of interconnectedness, seeD.P. Brown, “The Stages of Meditation in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” inTransformations of Consciousness, pp. 256, 269.209. The “openness” inherent in the Dzogchen approach is particularlyemphasized in this passage by Dilgo Khentse: “When performing themeditation practice one should develop the feeling of opening oneself outcompletely to the whole universe with absolute simplicity and nakednessof mind, ridding oneself of all ‘protecting’ barriers” (Dilgo Khentse, p. 379).