Three Problems With Mysticism

"The term mysticism tends to conflate lots of different accounts," he says. "It imposes on them a trans-cultural unity, which may or may not be there." It has some inescapable Christian overtones, but that's fine as long as we're using it to describe Christians and Christianity,. If we want to bring in other traditions, the use of mysticism rapidly degenerates into a damage control exercise., writes David Walliams.