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.

It is mostly lost today, but it has become so much a part of cultures that the consciousness of a people merely practices them as natural. Mystical studies are partly sectarian impetus, and partly the search for those lost connections to the ancient sense of the divine. Human memories are short, and conflict can have erased the connections from tribal memory.

Shamanism was also very widespread before, a kind of worship that was about the more physical aspects. The worship was for trees, rocks and animals, later denounced as barbaric by churches and also other religions. There was a custom for having kings that acted like real divinities, but when one white hair appeared anywhere on his body, he would be sacrificed on a fallow field.

The ceremony of sacrificing kinds on fields was a fertility process, helping to make land more bountiful. If his blood is joined with the earth, the belief was that divinities became satisfied and would help the land become fruitful. When agriculture became more intensive and effective, there was need for a new mystic system for people.

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.

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.

The most cardinal of sins for the church, often connected to domestic practice or social mores that are weird but accepted. In these studies these could be the threads that lead to the darker history of former things which supposedly died natural deaths. Axial religions supposedly eradicated these but that is improbable when human ancestry is infected by them.

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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