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My 'spiritual journey' or whatever you want to call it began with becoming interested in and reading about Advaita Vedanta. I had had experiences, and then read the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita and w… (View Post)
Mystical is only what we call it because we believe that there is just a mundane level. But in truth the world simply is that way. In The Way of Zen, Alan Watts highlights how Christian mystics are m… (View Post)
I would say that Buddhism is more 'pure' in a sense because it doesn't speak about God, but its not like it itself doesn't get caught up in symbols and forms. In the end for the mystics anyway God is… (View Post)
Everything. If you strip it down, which is what the mystics do, beyond the image and symbolism. Every single path is an approach to the ground of being. Al Junayd- 'The colour of water is the colour … (View Post)
(Quote) Its not an anxiety of anything, its more generalised. The existentialist philosophers, which I study in depth and am doing a PhD on Karl Jaspers (ft. Meister Eckhart), say that anxiety at hea… (View Post)