MYSTICISM
Definitions of mysticism on the Web:
* The belief that one can achieve direct consciousness of God or truth through meditation and
* intuition. In mystic practices, one attempts to merge with God or the source of creation.
* www.geocities.com/sorchagriannon/terminology.htm
* the articulation of experience beyond any symbolization
* home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/ev-glossary.html
* the belief in realities or truths beyond the present reach of reason.
* www.willdurant.com/glossary.htm
* Deals with Jewish mystical concepts related to Kabbalah.
* www.judaism.com/glossary/gloss1.asp
* direct communion with the divine through behavioral practice
* faculty.juniata.edu/tuten/islamic/glossary.html
* The doctrine that the nature of reality can be known by direct apprehension, by faculties above the
* senses, by intuition. "Mysticism demands a faculty above reason, by which the subject shall be
* placed in immediate and complete union with the object of his desire -- a union in which the
* consciousness of self has disappeared, and in which therefore subject and object are one"
* (Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th ed. "Mysticism"). ...
* www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/mp-mz.htm
* Belief in the possibility of Union with Divine Nature, trust in spiritual Intuition as a means of
* acquiring knowledge of Mysteries inaccessible to intellectual Apprehension; the study of God as
* Personality.
* miriams-well.org/Glossary/
* Generally speaking, a mental practice in which the mind is stilled so that it experiences the highest
* and most abstract conception of Godhead or Ultimate Reality free from any distracting thoughts
* whatsoever. Orthodox forms of mysticism include the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola,
* the Spiritual Guide of Miguel De Molinos (Christian), the classical Qabalah (Judaism), Sufism
* (Islam), Yoga, Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, etc. ...
* www.jwmt.org/v1n0/glossary2.html
* A belief that beyond the visible material world there is a spiritual reality which may be called God
* that people may experience through meditation, revelation, intuition, or other states that takes the
* individual beyond a normal consciousness.
* www.spiritual.com.au/dictionary/dict_m.html
* Sometimes called the interior life, mysticism is a way that reaches for immediate (meaning no
* mediator or other mediating influence) awareness of God, and beyond that, for identity in God (in
* the words of Catherine of Siena, "My me is God"). Mysticism implies an intense spiritual
* commitment but recognizes that progress along the path is attained by Grace alone. A mystic's
* relationship with God is intimate, constant, and boundary-less, until finally only God remains. ...
* www.zoofence.com/define05.html
* The belief that knowledge of divine truth or the soul's union with the divine is attainable by
* spiritual insight or ecstatic contemplation without the medium of the senses or reason
* www.innvista.com/culture/religion/diction.htm
* a conscious (and usually disciplined) quest for direct experience of union with the divine.
* ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rels/002/terms/
* a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
* obscure or irrational thought
* wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Mysticism (ancient Greek mysticon = secret) is meditation, prayer, or theology focused on the
* direct experience of union with divinity, God, or Ultimate Reality; or the belief that such
* experience is a genuine and important source of knowledge. In the context of epistemology, it can
* refer to using any kind of non-rational means ? such as feeling or faith ? in attempt to arrive at
* any kind of knowledge or belief.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism
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