Sunday, June 25, 2017

Mystical Studies And How They Work Today

By Charles Kelly


Mystic beliefs often date way back to the past, from religions so ancient that only some sect or small denomination survived from them. Their ways of worship can also be found in the many mores, cultural traditions and customs in countries that have played host to these. In this sense, those virtues found for them are also those in ceremony or rituals for them.

This will be mostly lost nowadays, or they may be driven into the subconscious of the people, and come out only in their traits and habits. Mystical studies have this kind of concern, and is driven in part by a search of connections to religions that are far gone. The memories and records are lost, and memory is a sensitive thing that can be affected by wars and constant migrations.

The shamanistic cults practiced a widespread kind of worship based on the physical aspects of existence. They worshipped nature and animals, practiced what have been denounced by the church as bizarre or savage rituals. One of these was the reign of kings who have everything during his lifetime, but was killed in the fields when the first white hair appeared on his head.

The ceremonial killing of this king on the fields was supposed to fertilize them, to make them fruitful. The blood of this once powerful being will satisfy the divinities of nature and therefore make the land bear bountiful harvests. When the problems about agricultural and nature became less, another kind of mysticism came in.

It was more about a philosophy than anything else, and this mystic view was born from movements like Judaism or earlier religions. Philosophical mysticism would also lead to the founding of the biggest religions that are now in existence. These were the systems that founded academies, scientific solutions and inspired art, cultural movements and created unique technologies.

More formal study on mystic records can also be very academic, an area where theologians and sociologists may study. These will have sanitized records that fit ideas on higher learning or consciousness that are attested to by axial religions. These are those that were founded on a thousand year timeline that transformed humanity, including Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

Base practice or acts may often be analyzed as behavior for throwbacks, and can be represented by violence and like actions. But modern academe cannot prove the connection to ritual practice for ancient sects as cause. The studies here is to aim for identifying elements that are old and still active in the habits and practice of men in the more modern settings or cultures.

Churches consider many base practices cardinal sins, related to domestic practice or in the more social settings of public places. The studies here can make this the threads leading into the dark labyrinths of religious practice said to have died centuries ago. The axial establishments once were zealous in wiping these out, although no one is sure that they have really died out.

The most relevant study in mystical systems today is one that is based on contemplation and cleanliness. Vows for abstinence and penitence can also be relevant, but the studies themselves in the academic sense continue to shed light on dark corners of the human experience. And this always aims to achieve the highest sense of the divine for humanity.




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