Ecstasy & Idiot Glee

The world deafens us with its noise; our eyes sting from the ever-enlarging incoherence of information and disinformation. We all feel, we all live, within the poverty of contemporary experience.

Mysticism is not primarily a theoretical issue. It is not just a question of an intellectual belief in the existence of God as some kind of metaphysical postulate which can be affirmed or disputed. Rather, mysticism is existential and practical. It is—and this can serve as a rough and ready definition—the cultivation of practices which allow you to... See more