Three hundred years after Christ, in the middle of a grappling Roman Empire, a small group of men and women left their cities in search of the quiet desolation of the Egyptian desert to become the ...

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Mysticism: 1) The doctrine or belief that direct knowledge of God, of spiritual truth, etc., is attainable . . . in a way differing from ordinary sense perception or the use of logical reasoning. 2) ...

It was 1995, and I had just arrived at St. John’s University in New York, fresh from a summer spent at a Hindu monastery. I was on a spiritual quest—a journey sparked, in part, by post-traumatic ...

When most people think of Heaven, they imagine clouds, angels, and golden gates in the sky. But early Christian mystics didn’t see Heaven as a place you reached after death, they saw it as a spiritual ...

A series of three classes titled "Everyday Christian Mystics" will be held in October at Presentation Prayer Center, 3001 11th St. S., Fargo. Francis and Clare of Assisi will be discussed Oct. 12, ...