Oct 31, 2025 · Mysticism, the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic …

Oct 31, 2025 · Mysticism - Spiritualism, Experience, Beliefs: Mystics believe that their experiences disclose the existence of an extrasensory dimension of reality: phenomena whose existence cannot …

Oct 31, 2025 · Mysticism - Esoteric, Rituals, Beliefs: Because mystics experience spiritual phenomena that are hidden from the senses, the physical world disclosed by sense perception does not exhaust …

Oct 31, 2025 · During mystical experiences, spiritual phenomena may appear to be ultimate, self-existing, and divine or may be experienced as contingent. Spiritual phenomena are not then …

mysticism, The theory and practice of religious ecstasies. Traditionally conceived as the spiritual quest for union with the Absolute, the Infinite, or God and the perception of its essential oneness, …

Dec 2, 2025 · Christianity - Mysticism, Spirituality, Faith: Mysticism is the sense of some form of contact with the divine or transcendent, often understood in Christian tradition as involving union with God.

Oct 31, 2025 · Mysticism - Spiritual Journey, Enlightenment, Union: What mystics hope to achieve differs from culture to culture. Shamans, theurgists, Daoists, Kabbalists, Western esotericians, and …

MYSTICAL meaning: 1 : having a spiritual meaning that is difficult to see or understand; 2 : of or relating to mystics or mysticism resulting from prayer or deep thought

Nov 24, 2025 · The term mysticism applies to the attempt to establish direct contact, independently of sense perception and intellectual apprehension, with the divine—a reality beyond rational …

Nov 21, 2025 · The earliest roots of Kabbala are traced to Merkava mysticism. It began to flourish in Palestine in the 1st century ce and had as its main concern ecstatic and mystical contemplation of …