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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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Would You Go to a Voodoo Funeral Home? Could You?

Some Afro-Diasporan traditions like Palo Mayombe require certain things to be done with the body after death.

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Lilith Dorsey
2014
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Rabbi Rami: My Morning Ritual

Early each morning, often long before dawn, I chant. I chant in Hebrew and Sanskrit. I chant from the morning liturgy of my root tradition, Judaism, and I chant mantra from my adopted traditions, Buddhism and Hinduism.

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Rabbi Rami Shapiro
2017
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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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Contemplative Community

Contemplative community is solitude-community which provides leisure to celebrate life.

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David Stendl-Rast
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Youthful Peak Experiences in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Implications for Educators and Counselors

Since Abraham Maslow’s death in 1970, his concept of peak experience has enlarged our understanding of human spirituality.

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Edward Hoffman and Fernando A. Ortiz
2009
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Spiritual Practices for Times of Crisis

The greatest gift we can give our world is our presence, awake and attentive. What can help us do that? Here, drawn from ancient religions and wisdom traditions, are a handful of practices Joanna Macy has learned to count on.

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Joanna Macy
2011
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Experiences of ‘Ultimate Reality’ or ‘God’ Confer Lasting Benefits to Mental Health

In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine
2019
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Forgiveness: The Bridge Between Self & Soul

Forgiveness is an interesting phenomenon. As you learn to forgive and to say, “Of course you’re human,” or, “We all do that,” you open up your heart to embrace the person or the situation back into you.

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Ram Dass
2015
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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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Should Christians Do Yoga?

A few weeks ago, a Baptist minister in Texas started a rumble, or at least a small brouhaha, when he declared that yoga is not suitable for Christians. His point was that using the body for spiritual practice contradicts basic Christian principles.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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