Mysticism

Maggie Ross sums it up best, in her usual blunt style: “It is a word that has, in my view, become entirely useless.”¹ She’s talking about the word mystic but if anything, that sentiment applies equally well to mysticism.

Consider the definition as found at dictionary.com:

1. the beliefs, ideas, or mode of thought of mystics.

2. a doctrine of an immediate spiritu…