For some people, mysticism has a bad rap. It is an "ism" and an extreme form of subjective faith with no substance or with little value. Unless someone has been touched by the ineffable and experienced a mystical encounter of the holy, of God, they simply can not understand what they do not know. Misunderstandings are bound to happen.
Some might want to say what I am promoting is Christian mysticism but even that does not take into account the cosmic significance of what God is doing in the world. We think of the many forms of mysticism like consumer shopping where people pick and choose their favorite type or brand. Some forms of mysticism do lack substance and others are captured and frozen within the confines of a religious tradition that keep them weak and impotent. True mysticism has no boundaries. It can not be domesticated or tamed. It can not be contained in one system of thought since God is one and God is boundless.
What I have been striving after is a Jewish-Christian mysticism where east and west come together as well as dualism and non-dualism meet. It will only be when truth, all God's truth join hands together in the cosmic dance of the universe. God is mending "all worlds" that leads to Tikkun Olam ("to do the works of love to repair the world"). Until all people across every divide and barrier find unity and union with the Creator of the universe, the hard work of reconciliation and restoration of God's good earth is yet ahead of all of us.
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