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The Mystic's A Beginning Discussion

What People Crave

So much of what people seek in life involves raising their level of consciousness. Don't you — don't all of us — seek to experience a life which is rewarding and full of meaning, rather than a life of conflict, confusion and chaos? Don’t we yearn to know ourselves and others more profoundly — more truly? Don’t all of us seek well being, insight and the inner power to change our lives in many ways?

Wouldn't you like higher knowledge and amazing insights regarding your problems and concerns? Wouldn't you like to contact your Higher Self and discover your connection with the Infinite Consciousness?

Do you seek a peace and clarity which thrills and restores you? Do you seek a love that lasts and isn’t a fraud? Would you like to exchange your years of accumulated stress and anxiety for a new era of ecstasy and personal achievement? Would you like to establish an ongoing sense of well being and participate in the gratifying creation of a better world?

Don't you have deep questions within you which ache for answers? Perhaps you frequently feel that you are meant to be a finer, more fulfilled, and happier person: you yearn to be free of old limitations and be more delightfully alive!

If you, too, murmur these vital questions, feel similar feelings, and recognize these yearnings as your own, you are a mystic by nature. You are a candidate for higher consciousness!

Enjoy learning about these marvelous aspects of mystical life here at TheMystic.org. The 32 Life Lessons at this website guide you through the highlights of superconscious life — from basic concepts to the treasures of advanced mystic knowledge.

You are also invited to receive actual training and acquire the revered techniques of the mystics at Mysteries.Net, our subscription site. The first six Mysteries of Life are free of charge and the following Mysteries are available to you online for a few dollars per year.

Explore the Mystic Side of your Nature

As you explore the mystic side of your nature, you will joyfully blossom. Your development will greatly enrich your life — and your expanding awareness will help people everywhere.

Feel free to hop around this site according to your inner guidance and mood. Or, proceed in sequence and spend lots of time with the subjects which most fascinate you.

We wish you success. May you discover and delight in your higher consciousness!

A Mystic Is

You’ll find as you work with these precious, inspiring principles and techniques, that you can awaken your mystical faculties and develop spiritual awareness. You can realize the relationship between your individual life and the Infinite Consciousness which gives and sustains all life.

Mystics come from all walks of life, from all nations, races, religious and philosophical perspectives. A mystic may be a business professional, a child, a homemaker, a clergyman, a manual laborer, a devout member of any of the world’s faiths, an agnostic, an artist, an invalid.

 
 

A mystic is any person who realizes, and is fortunate to maintain, a conscious connection with the Infinite Consciousness — the Infinite Spirit — or any of Its attributes, such as Love, Wisdom, Power, Goodness, Transformation, Wholeness, or Creativity, to name the main ones.

 
 
  

Mysticism Is About

Here’s a list of the various aspects and attributes of mysticism. One could spend years developing in these areas.

Mysticism Is About

  • The relationship between a person and the Infinite Consciousness
  • Transcendental awareness
  • Inner power
  • Love
  • Compassion
  • Awakening mystical faculties
  • Expansions of consciousness
  • States of supernormal awareness
  • Finding your true nature
  • Ecstasy
  • Creative imaging
  • Mystical prayer
  • Enlightenment
  • An aid to your religious path
  • Self-realization
  • Spiritual communication
  • Purpose
  • Kindness
  • Sympathy
  • Appreciation of other people, nations, races and religions
  • Life-realization
  • The meaning of life
  • Skill in action

Spiritual, But Not a Religion

While mysticism plays an important — and often essential — role in all the world's religions, mysticism itself is not a religion.

There are Christian mystics, Jewish mystics, Muslim mystics, Buddhist mystics, Hindu mystics, Protestant mystics, Catholic mystics, and also agnostic mystics.

While mysticism is not a religion, it is practiced devotedly and in distinctive ways by members of the different religions of the world.

Mysticism Isn’t About

Sometimes people mistakenly confuse other fields of study with mysticism. To help clarify these misunderstandings, here's a list of what mysticism is not about.

  • Channeling
  • Fortune telling
  • Psychic readings
  • Life on other planets
  • Power over others
  • Black magic
  • Predicting the future
  • Communicating with spirits or entities
  • Psychic powers
  • UFOs
  • Horoscopes
  • Cults
  • The occult
  • Hypnotism
  • Surrendering your will to another person