Some years back, I read in the New York Times magazine an article on “Mysticism in America,” which said that two-fifths of the population of the United States has had a genuine mystic transcendent experience, which means they saw through the veil. As I recall, though I can no longer find the article, in sampling that two-fifths of the population, 8

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Mystics engage in extended periods of meditation and contemplation and can become detached from the everyday world. They seek to unite with God—obliterating the boundaries between self and divinity.1 Mysticism is ultimately about boundaries because it inherently challenges the clear separation of God and human, a major binary opposition for all cul

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