Christian Mysticism

Every major world religion has a mystical branch. Islam's mystical branch is called Sufism. Buddhism's mystical branch is called Zen. Judaism's mystical branch is called Kabbalah or Hasidism. And in Christianity we simply call it Christian Mysticism. Mystics of all religions have the same goal: to come into a direct experience of the God at the center of their beings. Mystics are not so interested in dogma and care more to find out from their own experience who God is and what God is like. The entire practice of the mystic is to achieve ever-deeper connection with that God within and once connected to enter into a state of union.

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Christian Mysticism has been practiced ever since Jesus Christ Himself began it. Throughout the ages a person would, now and again, seem to spontaneously enter into a deeper experience of God than those around them. We have stories of saints throughout time who would be so caught up in states of ecstatic union with God or Jesus or Mary that they would sometimes even levitate. Those incidents tell us very little of what was occurring within the person, other than that he or she was most certainly in a very altered and ecstatic state of consciousness.

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