THE WAY OF THE JEWISH MYSTICS

Only a handful of Christians realize that there is a rich body of Jewish writings dealing with mysticism, philosophy, and daily living in a spiritual manner and have also forgotten the early Christians who were JEWS.....and that a JEWISH CHRISTIAN CHURCH(ES) existed prior to the consolidation of orthodox Christianity, that either rejected, ignored, or restated things to create THE MONOLITHIC STRUCTURES so admired and predominant in the world today......including reformatory ones, PROTESTANTISM, FUNDAMENTALISM, etc. ......THE MONTHEISTIC RELIGIONS, FROM THAT OF THE EGYPTIANS TO ISLAM have not been fully appreciated or understood by most so-called Christians and probably never will for many reasons.....but these are other issues....of education and communication and tolerance to some extent......Being able to listen as well as to preach seems often to be lacking in any type of religious undertaking, especially on a social/cultural level.....that is why an individual approach to this is more likely to achieve better results than mass movements or the like....but that is another issue....which means that anyone who endeavors to experience mystical states or revelations or the like had best do it in isolation and privacy and seclusion...where the world tends not to intrude, invade, or control such things....

WAY OF THE MYSTIC

THE WAY OF THE MYSTIC has seen a number of varied travelers along its mist-shrouded paths,lanes, and byways....some monks, some priests, some lamas, some Buddhists, and even shamans.....thus, this WAY connects or links at times with THE WAY OF THE MONK, THE WAY OF THE YOGI, and THE WAY OF THE FAKIR, though not necessarily in that order......Visionaries can be of all kinds of religious and occult organizations or simply be 'natural mystics' those who contemplate things deeply, meditate on certain themes,subjects, objects, principles,etc. or those who are merely subject to certain 'spells',bouts of ecstasy,intense imagination as well as fantasies, and who may be misunderstood, untutored, uneducated,etc. but always subject to the EMOTIONAL MACHINE....or the emotions that arise in them for all kinds of reasons, some medical, some drug-induced, some due to certain physiological changes(such as,aging, or hormone in balance or glandular secretions,such as the onset of puberty,etc. It would be, of course,a great mistake to reduce all mystical descriptions of visions and mystical states to anxiety attacks, hysteria, sexual conflicts, vivid dreams, drug frenzies, or epilepsy or the like...or to dementia and other nervous afflictions..... Explanations cannot do justice to the writings of the more 'classic' mystics, who often created or developed religions or sects of their own, or had it done for them by others....and the numerous accounts all over the world of work accomplished by 'saints', 'sages', 'healers','seers',etc. seem to attest to something goin on,somewhere, somehow, sometime,etc. that the ordinary mind will simply not turn away from or refute, even when science steps in or orthodoxy intrudes.... It is up to the reader of this blog to determine for himself whether or not mysticism is strictly a religious mania, a psychotic state, an unusual tendency, a complex of emotions, often coupled with intellectual considerations, or something supernatural or, at the very least, a misunderstood natural occurrence, not easily controlled or induced.....