“Mysticism” is a slippery word. People may use it to discuss medieval Christian saints’ communion with God, 3,000-year-old Vedic texts, or twenty-first-century Wiccan sex magic. Others use it to ...

Uncover the hidden history of alchemy, from ancient Egyptian mysticism to its pivotal role in shaping modern chemistry. Explore its secrets and discover ho ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have been called the mystic economist because mysticism has deeply influenced my life, shaped by Baha’i and other religious ...

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 ...

MYSTICISM — that is, the belief in supernatural connections in the physical and psychical worlds — has always been an interesting object of observation for the psychologist. When the human mind ...

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 ...

After the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, Salvador Dalí became fascinated with atomic theory. In 1973, he reflected that the ...