Monday 26 June 2017

Mystical Studies And How They Work Today

By Charles Kelly


Mysticism has roots that date back into the most ancient religions, and a lot of these still have some surviving sect or tradition. Many types of worship from these ancient systems are present in the mores, customs and traditions of any one country that has played host to them. In a sense, virtuous behavior is something that is founded on religious ritual and ceremony.

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 sacrifice ceremony of a king on agricultural land was for fertilizing it, so that it will be fruitful. His blood, once the most powerful of beings, can satisfy gods of earth and will inspire them to make the land bountiful. After problems in agriculture were solved, they were less needed and a new kind of mystical concern replaced it.

This was more about philosophy, deeper views of the cosmos, and it was first promoted during the rise of Jews or even earlier. The philosophers who became mystics would later found powerful religions now formally established today. They were instrumental in creating schools and the academe, inspiring the rise of arts, culture, and science and technology and the like.

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.

The base practices or beliefs are seen as holdovers in the racial memory, and things like a rash of violence are seen as symptoms of these. However, there is no true connection to how ancient religions could cause these. The studies here therefore also aim to find how those practices and beliefs may be subconsciously present and active in present day 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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