How Mystical Studies Work And Its Concerns

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 is lost more often than not, although they have been driven deep into cultural subconscious and also in the peculiar habits of the people. Mystical studies will have a sectarian spirit, and is also partly about the search for connections to those ancient spirits of worship. Memories can be cut off, sometimes during conflict or migration that can erase records and memory.

The shaman worship were in widespread practice, a worship that was truly animistic, about physical survival. The things worshipped were animals and trees, and churches and other religions have denounced these as barbaric. One custom was about having kings who were treated like divinities, although when his hair first turns white, he will immediately be killed on a ceremonial field.

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.

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.

Today, formal studies in mysticism are those that are academic in nature, the preserve of theologians and similar experts. The studies have been sanitized to fit the concept of higher consciousness that all axial religions espouse. The axial religions are those founded on a historical thousand year human turning point, like Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism 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.

The church considers many things cardinal sins and will be connected to behavior in domestic settings or the wider compass of social action. For the studies, these are threads that can lead to understanding of darker sides of religions that had supposedly died a long time ago. Axial systems had the mission of eradicating them, but there have been survivors, running deep in hidden ancestries.

Most of the relevant studies here can be based on systems that are for cleanliness and contemplation. The vows can include penitence or abstinence, although the studies are mostly secular in nature and will continue shedding light into the darker corners of human history. This can aim to accomplish a very high sense of what is divine in the heart of humanity.




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