“mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery” – Wayne Teasdall, The Mystic Heart
We are all mystics. Each one of us has the capability of seeing the wider perspective on life, and allowing it to influence our thoughts, beliefs, and actions. It is possible for every one of us to see our minds as open as the sky, and as clear; to see our hearts as complicated as the dense forest; and to recognize that the individual soul is not individual at all. It is possible for every person to come to know patience, forbearance, compassion, and forgiveness – not as virtues, but as natural, normal human responses to the surrounding world. And it is possible to see that the surrounding world does not just move around us, but it moves through.
The mystic is not, however, simply expansive. The mystic is inquisitive, eager to know, a believer in investigation and the (mystical) ability of the human mind to take things apart and put them back together. Mysticism does not arrive from the surrender of intelligence, but from its embrace. The mystic life is one of discernment, mindfulness, honesty, and curiosity. Mystics are scholars as well as wise women; scientists as well as psychics. Your own mysticism waits just beyond the willingness to admit that you, too, want to know… And that you can.
