To Become a Mystic

It's Not a Performance, It's a Transformation: From the Inside Out

What does it take to become a mystic?

I often tell the story of how Kenneth Leech—who offered me some casual mentoring when I was first writing about mystical spirituality—cautioned me not to call myself a mystic, but to simply be one instead. I love this story because it brings mysticism out of the ego (as something we can “perform” like being a musicia…