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Mysticism is a confused popular and scientific term used to refer variously to Connection, Connection Experience, Connection Practice, Connection Outcomes, and so on. On the LP we understand mysticism to be another word for Authentic Spirituality.
Notes
Troelsch's conception of mysticism refers directly, explicitly, and obviously, to Connection. "What Troeltsch has in mind is an orientation of spiritual life in the history of Christianity which aims primarily at a "personal living piety and at an Interior life' which has a direct experience of salvation." [1]. Salvation here may be understood as the experience of unity and oneness that one often experiences during a Connection Experience.
Zaehner defines mysticism by the Connection Outcome of Ascension. Mysticism is "the realization of a union or a unity with or in [or of] something that is enormously, if not infinitely, greater than the empirical self"[2]
Carl Keller also defines mysticism by a single, albiet important, Connection Outcome. He notes, "In the context of Christian Theology, the words 'mystical', 'mystic' have a precise meaning: they designate the highest state of Christian gnosis or religious knowledge, conceptualized as 'union' with God and the perfection of man. [sic]." [3]
Gender is important to an understanding of mysticism. Bruneau notes, "using gender as a category of inquiry leads to the realization, for example, that female mysticism has always been characterized by the participation and somatization of the body." [4]. Bruneau also points to the relevance of social class, though he doesn't delve.
Footnotes
- ↑ Steeman, Theodore M. “Church, Sect, Mysticism, Denomination: Periodological Aspects of Troeltsch’s Types.” SA. Sociological Analysis 36, no. 3 (1975): 181–204.
- ↑ Zaehner, R.C. Hindu and Muslim Mysticism. New York: Shocken Books, 1969. p. 5 https://amzn.to/2IK1A7R.
- ↑ Keller, Carl A. “Mystical Literature.” In Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, edited by Steven T. Katz, 75–100. London: Sheldon Press, 1978. p. 75.
- ↑ Bruneau, Marie-Florine. Women Mystics Confront the Modern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998p. 5. https://amzn.to/2L1L0m2.
