What is Modern Mysticism?

Being a Modern Mystic is simple. To be one, you merely must know that a Tree is not a “Tree,” and go about your life with this knowledge at the forefront of your mind. You must know that a Tree is something happening in front of you that you are calling a Tree using a word in the English language. Likewise, you must know that “Science” is a word for a way of conceptualizing and analyzing what is happening in front of you in the form of the Tree. You must also know that “Spirituality” is a word for a way of conceptualizing and analyzing what is happening in front of you in the form of the Tree. You must know that neither one is accurate, nor is either one true. You must know one cannot be true and the other false, and you must know that neither can both be true, nor both false. You must know they are both permanently neutral. Reason being that these approaches are nothing more than ways for the human being to describe and analyze something that is happening in front of it, and no description or depth of analysis will EVER be the thing itself. Science and Spirituality, then, to the Modern Mystic, are just that: concepts used to describe a happening. Fun concepts; entertaining concepts perhaps, useful ones, but nonetheless entirely nonsensical distinctions of language at their root; and certainly not existentially or objectively true, or worth arguing about. In essence, no description of why a tree exists or how a Tree exists or what a Tree is, is the truth of its existence. The only thing that is fully true and accurate is The Tree ITSELF. That’s it.

In short, Modern Mysticism is neither scientific, nor spiritual in nature. It is a system of observing the world around you in the most honest way possible. In that way it is a Middle Ground. It jumps to no conclusions, and believes in nothing Extra. Extra in this case means speculative. Everything a Modern Mystic knows and claims is based on obvious and observable truths which lead to existential insight that can be trusted infallibly. This of course is similar to the “scientific” method, but it differs in the respect that no definitive label is given to a particular phenomena. Take, for example, Creationism vs. Evolutionism. To make them mutually exclusive, i.e. to say that one is “scientific,” and the other “spiritual,” and that one is a more accurate explanation than the other, is absurd to the Modern Mystic. The first questions they would ask is, “what’s so unscientific about creation, and whats so unspiritual about evolution?” But! if one is to indeed answer such questions, and make a definitive claim as to How this reality came to be, which is what human beings most often attempt to do, there must be some obvious and observable reasons for the nature of that claim. Otherwise, mind your own business.