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What Is Mysticism? Definition and Examples

By Lisa Jo Rudy — 2019

Ancient and Modern Mysticism and Mystics.

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Mysticism

Mystical and religious experiences can be classified in various ways, in addition to the built-in difference between mystical super sense-perceptual and sub sense-perceptual experiences.

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Jerome Gellman
2018
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An Introduction to Religious Experience

The term “religious experience,” or sometimes “mystical experience,” is used to describe a transcendent event that transforms the person who has the experience, often in a way that leads to a strong sense of connection and/or oneness with the universe and/or God.

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2022
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Signs You Might Be a Mystic

You may know one—or even be one yourself.

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Samantha Vincenty
2019
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Science and Mysticism

The tragedy of dichotomous worldviews is compounded by the current myopia of conventional science and traditional religion, each convinced it has cornered the market on truth. "The true disease of the age is . . . literalism," observes mythologist Michael Meade.

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Dave Pruett
2016
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Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?

I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem--which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life--concerns who we really are.

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John Horgan
2019
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Spirituality and the Meaning of Mysticism for Our Time

What is real spirituality but the art of union with Reality? Mysticism is a particularly focused part of spirituality; the mystic is a person who aims at and believes in the attainment of such union.

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Jean Houston
2010
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Voices in Unity: A Conversation with Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr, who lives in the mountains of Northern New Mexico, is an author and highly sought-after speaker on the teachings of the mystics and contemplative practice.

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Annie L. Scholl
2020
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What Is Occult?

Learn all about occult and how it differs from spirituality and mysticism as Sadhguru reveals all.

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Sadhguru
2020
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How and Why We Summon the Sacred

An arcing rainbow of colors is rising today from the world’s spiritual traditions, given power by the urgent questing of so many people all over the world for unmediated experience of the Source and for guidance into a future that belies all human knowing.

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Jean Houston
2013
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