The Artist's Way-Mystical Union

According to 'The Artist's Way', at the heart of creativity is an experience of mystical union. I found this a striking sentence, perhaps because of my own experience of random mystical union taking place in a strange context...

Perhaps it is another thought to ponder on the tube in to work. What is mystical union? Am I unifying with the creative life force, or God if you are comfortable with that word? And out of that union producing amazing work of some kind? 

Questions, questions...

I definitely didn't experience divine union during my masters...

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