Mysticism is the heart of religion; that place where the sacred is not merely conceptualized but intimately experienced and unmistakably understood. It is a total transformation, turning everything you think you know on its head, in the best possible way. 

But the word mystical is also used to describe things that are vaguely magical or exotically mysterious. 

So which is it? 

Is mysticism a more or less frivolous concern having to do with incantations and seances and synchronicities and the like, or is it something more essential that is pointing directly to the truth about the nature of reality? 

Join guide Brian Clark for a deep dive into what mysticism is and what it is not, with the words of the world's great sages helping us to understand this profound topic. Through this understanding we can come to a better appreciation of how to live in harmony with the truth, whereby we find our greatest happiness, purpose, and freedom in this life.