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 ...

Traditionally, “false mysticism” has been considered a crime against the faith, under the competency of the DDF, but without ...

Discover the incredible story of Siyaram Baba, a 110-year-old ascetic from Madhya Pradesh, who lives a life of simplicity and ...

At a press conference introducing the norms in May, Cardinal Fernández warned about the ambiguity of the term 'false ...

The literature of Jewish prophecy and revelation has ample analogues to psychedelic experiences, writes a rabbi and author. The first question many Jewish users of psychedelics ask is whether ...

The modern philosophical assumption that mysticism is essentially about intense subjective experiences is misguided. This book is the first on the subject to take issues of gender seriously, and to ...

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. The ...