Theminormystic Wiki

Welcome to the The Minor Mystic Wiki
We shall explore transcendent movements and mystical traditions and practices with an aim toward awakening our latent human faculties and achieving the spiritual potential of the Homo Sapiens species.

What's the New Age?
While it is debatable when the "New Age" really began, the latter half of the 20th Century witnessed an awakening of long-dormant—or simply not widely-known—spiritual movements and mystical traditions. This spiritualization of the human consciousness ran a rather wide gamut, ranging from "repentant" movements in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, to a popularization of Eastern meditative practices originating in Buddhism and Hinduism, as well as a wide variety of frameworks and methodologies for attaining "enlightenment" through various means, these being meditative, reflective, devotional, and sometimes chemically based.

Our aim in this Wikia-based resource is to explore the essential mystical elements inherent to all enduring religions, traditions, faiths, and paths toward revealing God within ourselves, and as reflected through our fellow humans. We acknowledge that experiencing the Divine Presence can occur as a result of a very broad spectrum of practices and understandings, as well as through engagements with a variety of spiritual traditions. At the same time, rather than provide a smorgasbord of anything regarded as spiritual or mystical that took place over the last half century or so, we intend to stick to serious discussion and exploration of our God-nature. Practically speaking, this means remaining involved in some esoteric philosophy that has withstood the test of time, while being seriously engaged with the application of the traditions and practices associated with that approach, as well as other modalities that resonate with us in an essential way.

What's Ahead in The Minor Mystic?
Here are the topics we explore in The Minor Mystic.
 * Trust without Conditions
 * Our Purpose
 * Imagination versus Intellect


 * Rebbe Nachman: Jewish Cosmology
 * The Melami Path


 * Kebzeh: The Very Basics


 * Musar and Kabbalah
 * The Naqshabandis: Solitude in the Crowd
 * Ya'qub ibn Yusuf
 * Baba Selim
 * Idries Shah
 * Islam's Stations ... with a Twist
 * The Hidden Sources of a Sacred Psychology (with Dr. Yannis Toussulis)
 * The Experience of Insight, by Joseph Goldstein (a synopsis)
 * Living on Purpose: A Tweeted Summary of Dan Millman