Once or twice a month, Bernard McGinn receives an email from someone wanting to talk about their “special” experience. Many pose questions like, “How do I know if I’ve really had a mystical encounter ...

Lawrence Pintak’s “Lessons from the Mountaintop: Ten Modern Mystics and Their Extraordinary Lives” is an impressive work of participatory journalism. Pintak, “an avid student of the perennial truths ...

Focused on modern mystics, the class will provide times for students to practice methods for connecting to God's presence, organizers said. Jan Hilton starts most days sitting in a living room chair, ...

Explore the enigmatic world of the Golden Dawn, its esoteric practices, and Aleister Crowley’s controversial role in shaping modern mysticism. Democrats' win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss ...

Spiritual Wanderlust, an online school for spiritual formation, is launching a new year-long series of masterclasses focused on mystics of the 20th century. Spiritual Wanderlust, an online school for ...

On “Jesuitical” this week, Zac and Ashley chat with Simon Critchley, the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York and a Director of the Onassis Foundation, ...

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 ...

Following Netflix’s I’m Your Venus, Modern Mystics celebrates queer self-expression through high fashion, spiritual symbolism, and the legacy of ballroom Modern Mystics is more than a fashion ...