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Knight’s Templar, Scotland and Mysticism with Hugh Gilbert
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[Occult Audiobook] Mysticism Part 1; History of Mystics (Boehme, Swedenborg, William Blake, etc.)
Interview with a Christian Mystic - I AM 0076
American Mysticism - The Hidden History of Positive Thinking
ONENESS (pt.1/10) Where Science Meets Ancient Mysticism
What is Mysticism?
Ancient Egypt : Powerful Legacy & Mysticism [FULL VIDEO]
Alan Watts - Transcended ego experience (Mysticism and morals)
Spiritual Stages of Christian Mysticism, Union with God, Enlightenment
MERKABA MYSTICISM
Islamic Mysticism: An Introduction to Sufi Islam
Catholic Mysticism and the Emerging Church Reexamined
Knight’s Templar, Scotland and Mysticism with Hugh Gilbert
The Pineal Gland: Mysticism and Neuroscience
Early Christian Mysticism: The Jesus Prayer
Mysticism Explained-What is a Mystic?
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[Occult Lecture] Alchemy and Hermeticism; by McKenna, Magic, Supernatural, Audiobook, Mysticism
Consciousness and Quantum Mysticism
حضرة ذكر روعة في تركيا - Islamic Mysticism Sufi Zikr Circle
How to get closer to God. Christian Mysticism
Khemitology and Ancient Mysticism - Patricia Awyan ( The justBernard Show RADIO )
Ray Yungen- Mysticism in the Church (Satan's Old Tricks)
Mysticism and Science-CG Jung
Mysticism ( pronunciation (help·info); 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, including experience of and even communion with a supreme being.
A "mystikos" was an initiate of a mystery religion. The Eleusinian Mysteries, (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια) were annual initiation ceremonies in the cults of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, held in secret at Eleusis (near Athens) in ancient Greece. The mysteries began in about 1600 B.C. in the Mycenean period and continued for two thousand years, becoming a major festival during the Hellenic era, and later spreading to Rome.
The present meaning of the term mysticism arose via Platonism and Neoplatonism—which referred to the Eleusinian initiation as a metaphor for the "initiation" to spiritual truths and experiences—and is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight. Mysticism usually centers on practices intended to nurture those experiences. Mysticism may be dualistic, maintaining a distinction between the self and the divine, or may be nondualistic.
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself".
Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic", for its large appearance in the 18th century. Reverent of the Bible but hostile to the Church of England – indeed, to all forms of organised religion – Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions, as well as by such thinkers as Jakob Böhme and Emanuel Swedenborg. Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Rossetti characterised Blake as a "glorious luminary," and as "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master's degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest but left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Living on the West Coast, Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not just a religion. Like Aldous Huxley before him, he explored human consciousness in the essay, "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book, The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
The Right Reverend Hugh Edward Gilbert, OSB (15 March 1952 - ) is the Bishop of Aberdeen. He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 June 2011. He had previously served as abbot of Pluscarden Abbey. He was ordained bishop by Cardinal Keith O'Brien on 15 August 2011.
Edward Gilbert was born in 1952 in Emsworth to an Anglican family. He was received into the Catholic Church at age 18, on Christmas Eve of 1970. Educated in various schools in London including Saint Paul's. He then attended King's College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History in 1974.
He entered the monastery of Pluscarden in Moray, Scotland, taking the name Hugh, and was later sent to Fort Augustus Abbey for studies and preparation for the priesthood. He made his solemn monastic profession in 1979 and was ordained a priest on the Feast of SS Peter and Paul, 29 June 1982.
At Pluscarden he became sub-prior in 1984, novice master in 1985, and prior in 1990. He was elected abbot of the monastery 29 October 1992 and blessed on 8 December 1992. He was a member of the Council of the Union of Monastic Superiors from 1993 to 1997 and of the Abbot Visitor's Council since 1995. During his time as abbot the community grew to 27 monks.