Most of us have a twin overview on life. On one level, we merely do all the things we should do every day-work, consume, play. Yet on another level, we really hope there is even more to life-something that feels deeply genuine, an objective worthy of any type of initiative, a grand overarching scheme.
This hope is usually pushed into the background since it is so strongly discouraged by the materialistic values that prevail in our culture.
Mysticism is found in all of the major religious traditions. It constitutes a spiritual experiential orientation, as opposed to a socioreligious orientation to life. The mystic subset of Hinduism is yoga/Vedanta.
The focus of such mysticism is to realize all of the implications of what it means to be consciousness: self realization and God realization. The means to do so is a systematic approach to isolating consciousness—one’s self/atma—from matter, both its psychic and physical dimensions.
To find exactly what we prefer, we have to dig much deeper. We have to discern the essence of spirituality; we must see what is past psychology as well as the functions of the mind; we have to see just what physics can tell us concerning the nature of existence.
And we should fly greater, up until we have such an incorporating view that we could see the connections between spirit, mind, and physics, as well as ultimately discern the framework of all existence. When we could see this, and when we could begin to see why existence was brought right into being, after that we will locate a goal worthwhile of any type of initiative.
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