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Celebrating Female Mystics

By Mirabai Starr — 2019

A modern-day theologian gets this long-overdue party started.

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The Way of the Mystics

Howard Thurman tended not to speak of his own mystical inclinations, conscious that the word mysticism was likely to be misunderstood. And yet Thurman is commonly recognized as a mystic in the sense that he used the word to describe someone who had an acute experience of the Divine Life.

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Howard Thurman
2021
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The Essential Edgar Cayce

A complete guide to the work of the remarkable twentieth-century seer Edgar Cayce, featuring Cayce's most intriguing and influential readings, and a biographical introduction to his life. Edgar Cayce is one of the most mysterious men of the twentieth century.

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Edgar Cayce, Mark Thurston (editor)
2004
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Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest: A Crosscultural Anthology

Mysticism is traditionally defined as the yearning for direct connection to a transcendent reality and is referred to as the esoteric dimension of religious search.

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Phyllis Zagano
2013
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What is Mysticism? - Fr. Richard Rohr

Richard Rohr discusses mysticism and the mystical experience. Mysticism is experiential knowledge of God, the true experience of transcendence or the divine. Understanding the mystery of the incarnation means you don’t see everything in terms of either/or, but in terms of both.

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2016
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Exploring Religion - What is Mysticism?: An Afternoon with Dr. Bernard McGinn - Library at Home

Join distinguished historian Dr. Bernard McGinn as he delivers the Chair of Christian Thought Swanson Lecture on Christian Spirituality. McGinn considers the meaning of mysticism, a word that for many indicates something bizarre, uncanny, peculiar.

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2020
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Hildegard of Bingen: Essential Writings and Chants of a Christian Mystic

Hildegard of Bingen―visionary, abbess, composer, dramatist, poet and healer―was the brilliant and passionate precursor of many of the great women mystics of the Middle Ages.

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Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook (translator)
2016
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