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Mysticism - Examples in major traditions

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Examples of major traditions and philosophies with strong elements of mysticism are: Christian Gnosticism Christian mysticism Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm Javanese mystical movements Judaic Kabbalah Mormonism, being founded on visions, revelations, and angelic ordination Mystery religions and cults Native American Ghost Dances of the late Nineteenth Century were mystical in origin The New Age movement Near Death Experiences Quaker ...

Mysticism: Encyclopedia II - Mysticism - Examples in major traditions

Mysticism - Examples in major traditions

Examples of major traditions and philosophies with strong elements of mysticism are:

Christian Gnosticism
Christian mysticism
Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm
Javanese mystical movements
Judaic Kabbalah
Mormonism, being founded on visions, revelations, and angelic ordination
Mystery religions and cults
Native American Ghost Dances of the late Nineteenth Century were mystical in origin
The New Age movement
- Near Death Experiences
Quakerism in its theology
Theistic Satanism
Sufi tradition of Islam
Sumarah
Surat Shabda Yoga
Taoism
Tibetan Buddhism
Transcendentalist Unitarianism
Vedantic Hinduism
Yoga
Zen Buddhism

Mysticism - Hindu mystics

Some examples of Hindu mystics:

Andal Shankara Gopi Krishna Lalleshvari Mirabai Nārāyana Guru(1856-1928) Sri Ramakrishna Ramana Maharshi Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji Tukaram

Mysticism - Chinese mystics

Lao Zi (Lao Tze) Zhang Sanfeng Zhuangzi (Chuang Tsu)

Mysticism - Christian mystics

Some examples of Christian mystics:

St. John the Apostle (? -101) Clement of Alexandria (? -216) St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) St. Gregory I (590-604) Saint Anselm (1033-1109) Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) Albertus Magnus (1206-1280) Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1279) St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1275) Angel of Foligno - (c.1248-1309) ) Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1327/8) Richard Rolle (c. 1290 - 1349) St. Gregory Palamas (1296 - 1359) St. Bridget of Sweden (1302-1373) Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) Margery Kempe (c.1373-1438) Paracelsus (1493-1541) St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) Michael de Molinos (1628-1696) Sarah Wight (1632-?) Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) William Blake (1757-1827) Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) Jakob Lorber (1800 - 1864) Rufus Jones (1863-1948) Max Heindel (1865 - 1919) G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) Daniil Andreev (1906-1959) Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

Mysticism - Islamic mystics

Some examples of Muslim mystics (also called Sufi):

Persian:

al-Ghazali, (d. 1111) al Hallaj (d. 922) Jalal ad-Din Rumi (d. 1273) Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi Sadi Abdul Qadir Gilani Abu Yazid Bistami aka Bayazid of Bistam Abusaeid Abolkheyr Farid al-Din Attar Jami Mahmud Shabistari

Turkish:

Yunus Emre

Indian:

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, aka Khwaja Gareeb Nawaz Khwaja Nizamuddin Chishti, aka Nizamuddin Auliya or just Khwaja Nizamuddin Qalandar Baba Auliya Amir Khusro Shahbaz Qalander

Mysticism - Jewish mystics

Some examples of Jewish mystics:

Shimon bar Yochai (c.200) Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (1240-1291) Moses ben Shem Tob de Leon (1250-1305) Isaac Luria (1534-1572) Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746) Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) Abraham Isaac Kook (1864-1935) Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994)

Mysticism - Other mystics

Some examples of other mystics:

Aleister Crowley (magick and Thelema) Gurdjieff David R. Hawkins Jiddu Krishnamurti Bob Marley Plotinus (Neo-Platonist) Chapel Tibet Walt Whitman

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