What is mysticism?

  • (noun): A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality.
    Synonyms: religious mysticism
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Mysticism

Mysticism ( pronunciation; from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, meaning 'an initiate') is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, or levels of being, or aspects of reality, beyond normal human perception, sometimes including experience of and communion with a supreme being.

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More definitions of "mysticism":

  • (noun): Obscure or irrational thought.

Famous quotes containing the word mysticism:

    “What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”
    —Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)