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

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 …

Oct 31, 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 …

Oct 31, 2025 · Because religious ideas that are obscure or cryptic may be called “mystical” in popular parlance, mysticism is often mistakenly thought to be essentially irrational. Although …

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 …

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 …

6 days ago · Christianity - Mysticism, Contemplation, Union: Christian mystics have described the stages of the return of the soul to God in a variety of ways.

Nov 3, 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 …

Oct 28, 2025 · Islamic mysticism is called taṣawwuf (literally, “to dress in wool”) in Arabic, but it has been called Sufism in Western languages since the early 19th century.

Oct 28, 2025 · Sufism - Mysticism, Poetry, Rituals: The mystics drew their vocabulary largely from the Qurʾān, which for Muslims contains all divine wisdom and has to be interpreted with ever …