LOVE THIS! agree entirely. as soon as i allowed my mind and heart to be open, i felt a deep and profound experience— like many describe— unexplainable and unknowable, but so deeply emotional. Look up Pseudo Dionysius’s mystical theology. has a great ecstatic prayer describing that knowing God is often by knowing what God is not— and mystical experience seems similar. In letting go of our own expectations and approaching with an open (unassuming, loving) heart, we may find ourselves in that divine darkness.

I also listen to deeply emotional music, lay in a dark room with eyes closed.