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thumb|upright=1.2|Liber Divinorum Operum, or the Universal Man of St. Hildegard of Bingen, 1185 (13th-century copy)

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45 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Definitions
  • Union and mystical experience
  • Process and explanatory context
  • Intuitive insight and enlightenment
  • Spiritual life and re-formation
  • History of the term
  • Hellenistic world
  • Early Christianity
  • Medieval meaning
  • Apophatic theology
  • Renaissance
  • Early modern meaning
  • Contemporary meaning
  • Variations
  • Shamanism
  • Western mysticism
  • Mystery religions
  • Christian mysticism
  • Early Christianity
  • Eastern Orthodox Christianity
  • Western Europe
  • Western esotericism and modern spirituality
  • Jewish mysticism
  • Islamic mysticism
  • Eastern mysticism
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism
  • Tantra
  • Sikhism and Sant philosophy
  • Taoism
  • Mysticism and morality
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources
  • Printed
  • Web-sources
  • Further reading
  • Religious and spiritual traditions
  • Constructionism versus perennialism
  • Contextual approach
  • Philosophical issues
  • Classical
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.2|Liber Divinorum Operum, or the Universal Man of St. Hildegard of Bingen, 1185 (13th-century copy)

Mysticism encompasses religious traditions of human transformation aided by various practices and religious experiences. Popularly, mysticism is used synonymously with mystical experience, a neologism which refers to an ecstatic unitive experience of becoming one with God, the Absolute, or all that exists.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mysticism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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