Mystical Journey

Mystical Journey

The Point of Mysticism

It's Not Just About "Having an Experience of God"

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Carl McColman
Dec 29, 2025
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In 1991, religious studies scholar David M. Wulff offered this perspective on mystical experience:

Among the predictable characteristics of mystical experience are a sense of the sacredness of all life and a desire to establish a new, more harmonious relation with nature and with other human beings. There is a corresponding renunciation of the various ex…

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