Mysticism ( pronunciation (help·info); from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, meaning 'an initiate') is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience of and even communion with a supreme being.

Contents

• 1 Classical origins
• 2 Modern understanding
• 3 Literary forms used by spiritual teachers
  • 3.1 Aphorisms, poetry
  • 3.2 Koans, riddles, contradictions
  • 3.3 Jokes
  • 3.4 Stories, parables, metaphors
• 4 A perennial philosophy
• 5 The unknowable
• 6 References and footnotes
• 7 Further reading
• 8 External links

Noun

mysticism (uncountable)

1. The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
2. A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
3. A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
4. Obscure thoughts and speculations.

References

• mysticism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Mysticism (from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, an initiate of a mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with, identification with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight. Mysticism usually centers on a practice or practices intended to nurture those experiences or awareness. Mysticism may be monistic, dualistic, nondualistic, or ontologically pluralistic. Differing religious traditions have described this fundamental mystical experience in many different ways. The words "mystical" and "mysticism", though commonly used by mystics to affirm extraordinary insights beyond all expression, and thus impossible to communicate to others, have also sometimes been used in a presumptive sense which insists that others must believe and accept what aspects of the experiences can be communicated, or in an entirely pejorative sense, strongly related to rejection of such authoritarian claims.

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