Late in the book, after too many efforts to say why he wrote it, Critchley emerges with this useful phrase: Mysticism is the "fiery core and beating heart" of religion. That's certainly more ...

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 ...

IF by ‘science’ we mean an organized knowledge of the world we live in, adequate to give us some degree of power over that world, and if by ‘mysticism’ we mean the quintessential part of ...

Artist Dinh Huu Viet’s latest exhibition uses lacquer on paper to reimagine snakes, shedding their traditional symbolism for ...

Stevie Nicks’ music is a tapestry woven with threads of myth, fantasy, and deeply personal emotion. She’s never identified ...

The literature of Jewish prophecy and revelation has ample analogues to psychedelic experiences, writes a rabbi and author. The first question many Jewish users of psychedelics ask is whether ...