As civilization has advanced, one after another areas of magic, mysticism, superstition and myth have been blown away by rational investigation, testing, measuring, reasoning and recording data.
The last stand of the "believer" is the miraculous: the as yet unexplained.
This consists of blindly insisting on the unintelligible! They will tell you you CANNOT KNOW!
Yet, somehow, they know!
The Faithful and Discreet Slave KNOWS what you cannot know by yourself. You NEED them. They have the POWER and you do not!
The Mystic has a source of power you are cut off from and they run a Protection Racket like mobsters in Al Capone's era.
You must listen and not speak. You must respect and not question. You must obey and not balk. You must pay for their services!
You must buy their books and speak their language. You must turn away from all others who contradict them and make the skeptics your enemy!
The mystic is practically a spirit. The flesh is only temporary. For a fee they will instruct you, enlighten you and tell you the "hidden", the "secret" and the sublime. You can attend their seminars, their classes, their Kingdom Halls and run errands for them to achieve the illusory bliss they promise.
You are not allowed to ask for REASONS nor create arguments designed to elicit INFORMATION containing exact definitions or details!!
No no no no no....
That would feed your intelligence, your rationl mind, your consciousness and your powers of discrimination (which you are not allowed to exercise!).
The MYSTICS create their own language of vague non-meaning. The vocabulary of the Mystic contains words which mean what they want them to mean. Like the Cuckoo bird that lays its eggs in the other bird's nests..the Mystic hatches their progeny in your unconscious and unwitting cooperation. You spread their message by buying in and turning off your "weak" "sinful" "corrupt" senses and by parroting their orthodoxy as if it were gold.
How to accept Mysticism:
1.Accept allegations without evidence.
2.Accept personal experiences instead of proof.
3.Trust not your 5 senses. Postulate a 6th and use that one!
4.Claim as knowledge the non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable.
5.Start using words like "instinct", "intuition", "revelation" or "just knowing". Replace physical reality with "spirit" and "energy".
6.Give up the One Reality and replace it with some other "reality" wjpse only definition is that it is NOT natural, but, SUPERnatural.
7.Perceive your new nature, the supernature, with unnatural means such as "prayer", "meditation", "divination", "ritual", contacting spirits.
8.Become one with the Mystic and his World View by asserting that everything is reducible to one's OWN CONSCIOUSNESS. View your own mind as the True Reality. View the concrete world of dirt, stones, air and physics as mere ILLUSION!
9. Never view your emotions as involuntary physical sensations triggered by your deeply held VALUES---instead, view your emotions as SOURCES OF TRUTH! (Trust your gut! Not your rational intelligence!)
10.Proclaim that reality is not only whatever YOU want it to be, but, rely on your consciousness to actually CREATE any reality you choose for it!
Science is for the short-sighted, non-spiritual man trapped in an illusion of time and space who needs to be liberated by turning inward to his own spirit of awareness.
The above primer should work nicely for you!
