how would define a mystic ?

Question

what is it being a mystic ? what is the real sense of it ?

Answer 1

A mystic means to live life in the present tense as it is the only instance you will ever have in eternity and infinity. It also means to be honest in your actions and to yourself. A mystic believes in fundamental existence and philosophizing/or questioning everything to obtain spiritual enlightenment.

Answer 2

Mistic or Mysticism from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) "an initiate" (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning "initiation") is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an important source of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Traditions may include a belief in the literal existence of realities beyond empirical perception, or a belief that a true human perception of the world trancends logical reasoning or intellectual comprehension. A person delving in these areas may be called a Mystic.

The term "mysticism" is often used to refer to beliefs which go beyond the purely exoteric practices of mainstream religions, while still being related to or based in a mainstream religious doctrine. For example, Kabbalah is a significant mystical movement within Judaism, Sufism is a significant mystical movement within Islam, however Gnosticism can refer to either a mystical movement within Christianity or as various mystical sects which arose out of Christianity. Some have argued that Christianity itself was a mystical sect that arose out of Judaism. While Eastern religion tends to find the concept of mysticism redundant, non-traditional knowledge and ritual are considered as Esotericism, for example Buddhism's Vajrayana. Vedanta is considered the mystical branch of Hinduism.

Answer 3

A mystic has an innate sense of the meaning of things...one who seems to have been born with knowledge that would take others years of study to gather. They have discernment.

They hear a calling that is really there for all of us, but most do not hear, or listen. The mystic can and does listen.

Answer 4

Knowing the truth and mysteries of the man-soul. The "sense of it", it is not of the senses yet you know, it is more like a knowing.

Answer 5

One who believes in the mysterious nature gathering it from our earth and the universe to heal people or do magic with it.

Answer 6

someone who is concerned with what underlies reality. aware of ongoing metaphors in everyday situations. probably does mushrooms.

Answer 7

God, or call it by any other name it will smell as sweet