THE TAG “CHRISTIAN MYSTIC” OXYMORONIC?

The suggestion the experience of Reality that defines a mystic has anything to do with religions is oxymoronic, in my mystic experiences.*

Universities researching “Christian” and “Islamic”, “Buddhist” “Hindhu” and “Judaic” mysticism as if the phenomena belongs to those religions are putting the cart before the horse.

Mysticism is not a religious experience. Religion is not even spiritual. Nor is mysticism for that matter, but the two are at heart very little to do with each other anyway.

Religions recognised the existence of the mystic experience but could not replicate it so made up coercive human rules of morality and ethics instead then enforced them – then and now …

So religions were born, faking Ultimate Reality. (Like reading the bible backwards and upside down).

In my mystical experiences of reality, described in my web pages, mysticism has nothing whatsoever to do with any manifestation of the human race, or even of humanity itself, let alone its religions. Is that why religions are being abandoned, failing, falling under the weight of their artificial “spirituality”?

The human spirit is very different to the mystical experiences of Reality I experienced. The human spirit, in my view, is not compatible with the mystical experience of Reality.

The mystic experience manifests itself only in individuals, not religions, nations, species or ideologies. It cannot be evangelised. It is caught not taught.

A mystic is one who however unworthy has experienced the mystic experience of Reality, (MER).

I doubt if a contemplative, a religionist or an academic who only sees the phenomena of MER as a subject of general anthropomorphic study – or anyone for that matter who sees MER as a human construct, a mere emanation of the human brain – is a mystic or has any experience of the phenomenon.

This effort to assimilate mysticism into merely human experience is an obfuscation of revealed Reality – bereft of hard evidence; sincere no doubt, but sincerely wrong.

Is this idea of assimilating mysticism into a totally unrelated human construct an academically anthropological acculturation, what some wisdom traditions refer to when they talk about “The Negative Principle” and its bedeviling work – what early primitive religionists called the work of Shaitan, the Devil?

If so, no problem! – on some scientific evidence, humanity is barely consequential anyway; mysticism is beyond, and limitless.

* If I say “me” or “I”, this is not meant to imply my experience is the final say for you. It is not, necessarily. My use of “me” and “I” are meant to issue a cautionary caveat, to invite discussion, comment and sharing. My experiences are of course true evidence so far as I am concerned but anecdotal by definition. Seekers must keep going on their present path until they can’t, then stop – discard, and move on. They can be comforted by the mystic tradition that That which they seek seeks them, just them. There are no failures. All is well.