The Concept of "Natural Disposition" as an Opportunity to Develop the "Common Core" of Mystical Experiences

This article first presents a brief description of the concepts of “mystical experience”, “constructivism”, and “essentialism”. Next, it addresses the disagreements on the concept of “common core”. Then, adopting the concept of “natural disposition” as its premise, prioritizing the internal experience over external experience, and using a descriptive-comparative method, it concludes that “inborn natural disposition” in wayfarers and in humans in general can be the common core of mystical experiences and function as a comprehensive rival theory against constructivism and essentialism, provided that we believe in a kind of “non-volitional potentiality”. This derives from the fact that potentiality expresses that a being attains its experiences and cultural achievements voluntarily, under the impact of external compulsion, or due to its mode of existence (i.e. natural disposition).