Sources for the study of mysticism

‘giving account of (direct) experience of ultimate reality‘ – my working definition of mysticism

DCW’s site HERE

DCW’s site is very useful because it includes all these and much more;

Practical Mysticism

Mysticism

The Mystic Way

The Spiritual Life

Introduction to The Cloud of Unknowing

Introduction: Songs of Kabir

Introduction to Confessions of Jacob Boehme (edited by W. Scott Palmer)

Introduction to the Letters of Evelyn Underhill 
by Charles Williams

COPYRIGHT

As far as I have been able to ascertain, all of these works are now in the public domain. If you own copyright in any of these, please let me know immediately and I shall either negotiate permission to use them or remove them from the site as appropriate.

DCW

Wikipedia is quite useful HERE

 

Mystics of the world course HERE

 

Perennial Philosophy, or mysticism, in one sentence

 

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Perennial Philosophy, or mysticism, in one sentence

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“We can be happy, and serve others well,

if we realize our true Self

by detaching ourselves from the egotistic lower self –

through our step-by-step becoming aware

of the stillness beneath the noise.”


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This is the mystical core of all of the great world wisdom traditions.


If you don’t have the time to delve deeply into one or all of the religions read Eckhart Tolle’s The New Earth and do this course presented by Oprah Winfrey – HERE


Roger’s ver as at Nov 30th 2008


What’s your version?