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Mysticism & C. S. Lewis: Venturing into the Region of Awe

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How Lewis Becomes a Mystic

Lewis was turned off to occultism as a teenager. His adoptive mother, Jamie Moore's brother, Doc Askins, got very interested in the kabbalah and spiritualism. Lewis felt he had been a materialist but started feeling there was some spiritual dimension pressing upon our everyday reality. He read Evelyn Underhill, this wonderful scholar on mysticism.

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