Each of the Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — has a mystical path. Jews call their tradition Kabbalah. Muslims have Sufism. And Christians have, well, the mystics. (Though until ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

MYSTICISM — that is, the belief in supernatural connections in the physical and psychical worlds — has always been an interesting object of observation for the psychologist. When the human mind ...

Mysticism is a concept that famously, perhaps even by definition, refuses to be pinned down. In 1911, the English writer ...

IF by ‘science’ we mean an organized knowledge of the world we live in, adequate to give us some degree of power over that world, and if by ‘mysticism’ we mean the quintessential part of religion, or ...