Mysticism is about the divine love that flows through everything in the universe and through us into the human world. Love is why we're here. In a letter to his daughter, Albert Einstein called it the "…force that includes and governs all others."(1) And the mystics from all traditions and times have told us Read More
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Where Questions Answer Themselves
August 6, 2017
What is this space I'm in? Lessoning motivation, deepening quietude, surrender to the peace of divine being. Released from conventional way of things, descending into the silent fathomless depths from which my essence flows, saturating with divine love, I am what is and need no more. When my mind is still, it's filters absent Read More
The Mystical Consciousness of Eden
May 25, 2017
I often walk from my house to the end of a spit on the island where I live. One day, I recorded a list of qualities I experience in this awakened right-hemisphere consciousness. I use words to describe and communicate the experience, but of course they are not normally part of it. Here is Read More
The Awakened Consciousness
July 7, 2016
What happens when we experience the world directly, without the conceptual overlay of thoughts, names, interpretations, explanations, intentions, beliefs, values, clocks, purposes and goals - yours and others? What happens when there is no map, no place to go, no one to be, and nothing to fix or accomplish? What happens when things are Read More
The Spiritual Practice of Aging
July 6, 2016
In the spiritual practice of aging, we are gradually and steadily transformed into love. It is a long slow process of melting the False Self - the idea of me - into a fathomless inner sea of divine love, like sliding into the bubbling waters of a hot tub, like a candle melting in Read More
Confessions of a Reluctant Mystic
April 6, 2016
I am a mystic. This is my confession.
All my work, beginning with Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul to The Divine Human (in press) has been the product of an unfolding mystical revelation. It was given to me fully formed from the start but I had to work out each piece Read More
All my work, beginning with Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul to The Divine Human (in press) has been the product of an unfolding mystical revelation. It was given to me fully formed from the start but I had to work out each piece Read More
Defining God
June 8, 2015
"What is God?" We can ask this question from two distinct positions: thought and experience. In the thought approach, we engage our intellect and conceptually ponder the nature and characteristics of the divine - a fascinating though often controversial subject that has produced vast libraries of belief and speculation. When we seek to understand Read More
Learning From Direct Mystical Consciousness
July 23, 2014
In graduate school, I was particularly amazed by Jean Piaget, the French psychologist, who created an entire theory of child development simply by carefully watching his own children. Carl Jung, too, developed a profound depth psychology much of it from his own inner work. Later I was equally amazed at Buddha's insights about the Read More
The Mystic's Path of Aging
June 14, 2014
There are as many paths through aging as there are aging people, but as I look back on my writings, books, blogs, the endless journey entries, I see that this website could really be called "The Mystic's Path of Aging." It is a journey to the center, the source, the divine origin of our Read More
What I Like Most About Being InterFaith
December 3, 2013
What I Like Most About Being Interfaith
Rev. John C. Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min.
After closing my practice as a clinical psychologist following a health crisis, I felt an urgent need for new inspiration and direction for my life. Long drawn to mystical spirituality, I entered The University of Creation Spirituality created by Read More
Rev. John C. Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min.
After closing my practice as a clinical psychologist following a health crisis, I felt an urgent need for new inspiration and direction for my life. Long drawn to mystical spirituality, I entered The University of Creation Spirituality created by Read More
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