Step into a contemporary gallery today, and mystical, spiritual artworks greet you like old friends. Once dismissed as fringe or overly eccentric, these works now dominate major exhibitions. The ...

The Mystical Nativity, painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1500, is one of the most enigmatic and intense works of the Italian Renaissance. Today housed in the National Gallery in London, it is not simply ...

The real deal with "spiritual experience" and mystical experience Based on their results, the authors concluded that mystical experience can be seen as “a spiritual rather than a pathological ...

Theologian and spiritual teacher Lanzetta (The Monk Within) considers the concept of spiritual direction and guidance in this series of meditations and journaling exercises. Lanzetta focuses mostly on ...

Ego death, a sense of oneness with the universe, a release from the illusion of the self. Concepts and ideas often left for the 'New Age' section of bookshops, are now seriously being studied for ...

A recent study (Bitēna & Mārtinsone, 2021) argued that mystical experience is a spiritual phenomenon associated with mental health rather than something pathological associated with mental illness ...