Meditative retreats are an important practice in Sufism, the mystical path of Islam.
Also distinguishing Sri Aurobindo's teaching from most other mystical paths is the need for transformation of the personal and relative nature.
Having completed the lessons of the Neophyte section, the student stands at an important milestone in progress along the mystical path.
Parmenides and Empedocles are also united by a shared understanding of death and, in particular, its role in the mystical path.
Possibly the mystical path is a way to such an understanding.
The ultimate goal, achieved Thursday night, is conversion not to a doctrine but to a music-driven mystical path.
Also follows a more mystical path than Jerry's fatalistic realism.
OCS claims that there are three major initiations that appear in all major mystical paths, though called by different names.
He is the hidden initiator of those who walk the mystical path, like some of those from the Uwaisi tariqa.
Uwaisis are those who enter the mystical path without being initiated by a living master.