Focused on modern mystics, the class will provide times for students to practice methods for connecting to God's presence, organizers said. Jan Hilton starts most days sitting in a living room chair, ...

Lawrence Pintak’s “Lessons from the Mountaintop: Ten Modern Mystics and Their Extraordinary Lives” is an impressive work of participatory journalism. Pintak, “an avid student of the perennial truths ...

Explore the enigmatic world of the Golden Dawn, its esoteric practices, and Aleister Crowley’s controversial role in shaping modern mysticism. Democrats' win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss ...

On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Simon Critchley, the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Director of the Onassis Foundation, ...

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

Mysticism. By Simon Critchley. NYRB; 336 pages; $18.95. Published in Britain as “On Mysticism”; Profile; £18.99 The travails of Christina the Astonishing, a Belgian Christian in the 12th century, were ...

We often think of the past as regressive, a time when women stayed home to cook and sew while men went out to fight. But starting in about the 8th century CE, women across the world began engaging in ...