Mystic
A Mystic is an individual who regularly induces Connection, sometimes with Connection Supplements, with the express purpose of exploring, understanding, and writing about The Fabric of Consciousness and her/his experiences with it.
Syncretic Terms
Arendiwane, Karadji, Shaman, Shamanic Principle, Wise One
List of Mystics
Mystics > Agehananda Bharati, Alan Watts, Bernard of Clairvaux, Emanuel Swedenborg, Howard Thurman, Ibn al-'Arabi, Julian of Norwich, Maria Sabina, Martin Prechtel, Michael Harner, Oscar Ichazo, Romain Rolland, Shihäb al-Din al-Suhrawardi, Thomas Merton
Plotinus, Eckhart, Isaac Luria
R. C. Zaehner,[1]. Z. notes that his experiences was triggered by his third reading of Arthur Rimbaud's Ô saisons, ô châteaux' from Une Saison en Enfer ("A Season in Hell").
Notes
A mystic is a person who engages in Connection Practice. " Thus, mysticism cannot be reduced (contra most philosophers) simply to a matter of holding certain metaphysical beliefs—it is a way of life, or a way of being, in which practices and ASC (Altered States of Consciousness) experiences are central. " [2]
"...traditional mystics value experiences not as ends in themselves but only for the knowledge they give that enables the mystics to transform their lives in line with the fundamental nature of reality as defined by their culture. Classical mystics do not stress mystical experiences for the joy of the experiences—indeed, the quest may be anything but joyful—but for the insight allegedly given and a life aligned with reality.6 (Enlightening knowledge needs to be realized only once, but maintaining an enlightened selfless ASC is another matter.)"[3]
A mystic is "an artist of a special and exalted kind, who tries to express something of the revelation he has received, mediates between Reality and the race."[4]
"The purpose of following a mystical way of life is to transform one’s character and way of being by means of mystical practices, experiences, and states of consciousness. "[5]
"Mystics are the pioneers of the spiritual world, and we have no right to deny validity to their discoveries, merely because we lack the opportunity or the courage necessary to those who would prosecute such explorations for themselves.[6]
A mystic is a person who says Ί am a mystic,' or words to that effect, consistently when questioned about his most important pursuit" (p. 25); and (2) the mystic must have the "zero-experience" of an "... intuition of numerical oneness with the cosmic absolute, with the universal matrix, or with any essence stipulated by the various theological and speculative systems of the world" (p. 25).[7]
A mystic is someone who a) says they are a mystic, b) has a Unity Experience, c) experiments with things that induce mystical experience, d) with a special emphasis on the experience of "bliss." [8]
Footnotes
- ↑ "I have myself experienced...this and the joy experienced as a result of this uncontrollable and inexplicable expansion of the personality is not to be brushed aside as mere illusion. On the contrary: beside it the ordinary world of sense experience seems pathetically unreal....It is perhaps not without relevance to mention that at the time of this unsolicited experience, apart from a profound dislike of conventional Christianity, I had no religious beliefs of any kind..."Zaehner. Mysticism Sacred and Profane. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. p. xiii. https://amzn.to/2LcdkCl.
- ↑ Jones, Richard H. An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism. New York: SUNY Press, 2021. p. 6
- ↑ Jones, Richard H. An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism. New York: SUNY Press, 2021. p. 6.
- ↑ Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. New York: Dover Publications, 2002. https://amzn.to/2C91xNY.
- ↑ Jones, Richard H. An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism. New York: SUNY Press, 2021. p. 6
- ↑ Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. New York: Dover Publications, 2002. https://amzn.to/2C91xNY.
- ↑ Quoted in Katz, N. “The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 45, no. 2 (June 1977): 260–61.
- ↑ Bharati, Agehananda. The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism. Ross Eriikson, 1976.
