Mysticism is a concept that famously, perhaps even by definition, refuses to be pinned down. In 1911, the English writer Evelyn Underhill called it “a certain spiritual and intangible quest: the ...

Each of the Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — has a mystical path. Jews call their tradition Kabbalah. Muslims have Sufism. And Christians have, well, the mystics. (Though until ...

Andrew Louth criticizes “mysticism” as a controversial or useless word. In the introduction to her book Writing the Icon of the Heart, Maggie Ross makes this rather in-your-face claim: The word ...

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Does mysticism have a place in quantum mechanics today, or is the idea that the mind plays a role in creating reality best left to philosophical meditations? Harvard historian Juan Miguel Marin argues ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (RNS) — A growing number of millennials are finding that contemplative spirituality is a way to bridge the faith they grew up with and their yearning for deeper connections to God.

Nan Goodman doesn’t spend much time wondering what Madonna, Mick Jagger or Ashton Kutcher may have gotten from dabbling in the “Kabbalah trend” of the early 2000s. What concerns Goodman are what ...

My dear friend, Ralph Lane, wrote poetry in his retirement years. One such poem, entitled, “I Will Never Be a Mystic,” reads: “I will never be a mystic and to be honest, I am not really trying though ...