Brief History of mysticism

[enchanted]

Dear incredible people of the actualized.org forum! it's another amazing day to be alive. check out this interview if you are interested in the brief history of mysticism. 

Edited 7 hours ago by enchanted

[Ziran]

Is mysticism always religious?  It's controversial, but, yes. 

Religious is a type of cognition.  It exists on a spectrum, at the extreme, opposite gnostic at the far other end of the spectrum.  If so, the defining quality which determines to what extent a concept or practice is "religious" is a type of certainty:  gnostic-agnoticsm, "It certainly cannot be known."  At the other end of the spectrum is pure knowing:  gnostic-gnosticsm, "I'm certainly knowing it."  When people become interested in mysticsm, they are becoming interested in a type of inquiry or practice which consistently produces religious "gnostic-agnosticsm".  This type of cognition is cultivated cross culturally around the world.  It's alchemy.  The practice creates a metaphorical crucible in the heart-mind.  Within this crucible the partitioner creates, something-from-nothing.