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opt for ‘renunciation’ of life and its pleasures, living in secluded places, off limit from human settlements. Once again, this very notion has major overtones of popular perception of religion. Naturally, some ritualistic utility also creeps in into this popular imaging of a mystic. It is like, if one is a scientist, the popular image that comes to mind is of a person with unkempt hair, specs and weird beard, etc.

Modern psychologists and consciousness researchers believe, this specialty is not meant for few and all this populist notions are inappropriate. The new thinking is; everyone needs to be a mystic, should ideally remain in mainstream society and look like an average person in external appearances. In other words, mainstream society needs most people in a state, which is befitting for a real pop mystic. This belief emanates out of the idea of mysticism as a state of mind consciousness, an internal thought utility and not as an external action-behavior choice.

The notion of mysticism and its inherent traits need to be understood from modern and contemporary perspective of holism, assimilation and integration. A mystic is not to be associated with action-behavior of ‘renunciation’. Rather, it is a mind consciousness, which always accepts and is in absolute reception of everything. Even from core religious perspective, nowhere humanity has been prescribed ‘renunciation’. The prescription always is ‘acceptance’ first, ‘assimilation’ next and ultimately the ‘balance and poise’ of all elements inside and outside.

Modern experts identify the basic characteristic of mystical experience as the intuitive perception in we all that we are part of a universe that is a unified whole. A true mystic is a person who with thought and action seeks to obtain unity, assimilation and integration of his or her conscious self into the holism of the cosmos and everything around. He or she believes in the deep conscious assessment and exploration of all realisms that are within as well as beyond the prevailing or popular intellect and societal wisdom.

In Hindu religious tradition, a mystic is termed as ‘aadhyatmik’ and ‘rahasyawadi’, a person who is given to ‘aatma-anveshan’. This translates as a person whose life energies are directed within – for self-explorations to find answers of all questions and mysteries of life and living within his or her higher consciousness. This he or she does by accepting everything and assimilating everything within his or her larger consciousness and then engender a unity and poise between all elements – within and outside. This entire mechanism and process of spiritualism is at a profound level of mental or emotional communion. Spiritualism is a process of assimilation of multidimensional body-mind realisms into one singular oneness, through self-explorations.

This idea is central to the thought of we all. This mechanism and process is common to we all and this is what we all go through in our lives. That is why; the cherished and high utility position of life and living is this consciousness of a mystic – the spiritual we. We all have this body-mind mechanism to be spiritual.

We all have this innate need to see and find ourselves in unity of the universe. Everything tangible and intangible is derived from what psychologists call as archetypal images framed in our minds since childhood and even before. This innate need emanates out of our mechanism. Experts say, “What we call as ‘self’, is a bridge between body and mind – the real me and virtual me. As this bridge connects the two extreme ends, one tangible and another intangible, the sense of ‘self’ itself behaves like intangible ‘super-self’, which engenders a feeling of spirit, soul and energy-like sensory perceptions”. That is why; we all feel the need for a unity and poise between the two conflicting entities of tangibility and intangibility. The mystic positioning is a must for we all to attain this ‘poise’. We all need to be a pop mystic in contemporary world.

Experts say, anyone can have a sensate-mystical experience. Feeling in unity with surroundings is natural. Such an experience is usually accompanied by feelings of reverence and awe; as we all have archetypal imagery of such feelings, since the day we are born. Because, such experiences have essentially been connected to religion since long and scientists say, these experiences are now wired in our body-mind mechanism.

Such an intuitive experience, which is available for all, is called mystical because, it is mystically intangible and considered beyond the scope of this world. This however, vitiates the beautiful and very socially meaningful notion of mysticism as it lands this innate feeling in the domain of religion, whereas, it is something very temporal and secular.

The moment religion and sacrosanct rituals enter the domain of secular mysticism, which is an intuitive facility available for all, irrespective of faith spectrum, the real joy and utility of mysticism for society fades away. It then is exposed to subjective coloring of respective ‘pre-notions’ of faith and also becomes available for societal manipulation of common, innocent and unpretentious persons by a handful of ingenious lots.

This manipulation is a pattern now and seen all around us. Mysticism is highly and exclusively personalized experience and can never be delegated to anyone, irrespective of tall claims of magic and charisma associated with religious mystics, gurus, shaman and god-men. Mysticism in its purest and personalized form needs to be understood.

All wisdoms say – human is designed to live in state of ‘flux’, a state of instinctive semi consciousness, floating between unconscious and subconscious mind domains. Science calls it an instinctive ‘auto-mode’ functionality of consciousness. To jolt oneself out of this, one must revert within the ‘self’ and initiate the ‘self-exploration’ process; something humanity has done since four million years. This is the doorway to common sense.

Often, in our daily lives, we are in drifting ‘reactive-mode’ of consciousness. This is our mechanism; we have been designed this way for survival. This mode is for quick-fire response of the stimulus in the ambient environment for survival-success. Tougher life shall be, more reactive we become. This is one ‘trap’ situation, which we need to understand.

In the short time available for ‘reactive-mode’ mechanism of auto-mode decision-making, we cannot ideally look at the picture and situation in entirety. This short time frame can facilitate only peripheral view of a situation. Discord and conflict is always in periphery. For holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective of any problem, we need leisure and calm mind to switch over to the ‘receptive-mode’, where problems or situations can be reviewed in basics and to the core. Here unity and coexistence is the rule.

We have the mechanism, which makes us aware of our ‘subjectivity’, the ‘me’ factor. We are endowed with the power of imagination. This is very subjective. We can hold back a reaction; we can ride over our instinctive response, wait and assign it to our brilliant facility of leisurely reflections. It is this ‘receptive-mode’ consciousness, which makes us the champions of the universe, the master crafts-persons, designed and evolved to solve even the most complex problems. This mode makes someone see a falling apple and engender intangible laws of physics.

There is a ‘generic subject’, which scientists term as the ‘auto-function’ mechanism of our body-mind synchrony. Then, there is a ‘specific subject’. This is our reception-mode consciousness. In our normal daily life, it is this generic subject within us, which is doing everything, as it is the auto-reactive mechanism. It is in times of distress, confusion, extraordinary situations or crisis that the specific subject, which is an entity of non-reactive, receptive mind consciousness, comes to fore and takes good control of life.

The trouble most of us have is this: we have blurred the fine line of distinction between the two modes. Even when, we are supposed to be in ‘receptive mode’, we are ideating in ‘actionable’ patterns. We all live in such a contemporary societal space where every reception is culturally required to be converted into action mode. It is like, when someone is kissing his beloved, he is more focused on whether he is ‘performing’ it well or not; instead of being in absolute reception of the joy and contentment of the beautiful touches. For him, the joy becomes an ‘externalized exercise’, rather than an ‘internalized emotion’.

That is why, spiritualism is everyone’s need. We need to accept spiritualism in this secular and personalized perspective. Spiritualism is our natural and innate mechanism. It is not some external or societal choice that we can make or reject. As it is our mechanism to be in ‘reactive-mode’ auto-function consciousness, it is equally our innate mechanism to be in ‘receptive-mode’ mechanism of our higher consciousness. Spiritualism is just this innate and built-in mechanism and process to create a beautiful and fruitful ‘poise’ between different layers and dimensions of our consciousnesses to have a successful and meaningful life with optimum potentials.

Moreover, most people accept spiritualism as synonymous with renunciation. They also perceive renunciation as denying everything and every pleasure of life. This idea is sad vestiges of misinterpreted and misunderstood religions and a detrimental one. Renunciation is not denial, the best traditions and precepts of all religions also tell us. Renunciation is an acceptance of everything and then awareness that there has to be a poise and equilibrium in all pursuits. Renunciation is not leaving, but arriving at poise, which helps in mystical experiences. It is good for all.

There is an old oriental wisdom, which says, “A person shall die if he or she has only one element – either all good or all bad. Survival is a function of poised positioning between the two elements of good and bad”. Renunciation is a facility and mechanism for arriving at this poise. The process is of first accepting everything – good or bad. Then assimilating them all to process its wider utility and then finally, ‘prune’ those elements, which are not suitable for ‘poise’.

Pruning is not renunciation. One does not have to shave his or her head. The idea is not to have such long hairs, which could require loads of time and attention for care. Better it is to trim it to a state, which is manageable and still gives a radiant glow to the beautiful face.

Ordinarily, we tend to categorize renunciation as virtuous, attributing various moral or holy qualities to it. Renunciation, as a consciousness positioning, not as an action-behavior choice, for search of poise is essentially a practical and secular issue, not a moral issue: Your state of consciousness fits your intention, and renunciation changes intention.

There is another important aspect about mysticism, which needs to be understood and accepted. Mysticism is not an end in itself. It is just a stage, which works as a launching pad for higher purposes. Experts conceptualize the "mystical" experience as one, which can occur as a transitional state of consciousness, in the process of the development of higher states of consciousness. For them the core state of consciousness is pure consciousness and from it develops these higher states of consciousness. Spiritualism is a process and facility to arrive at higher consciousness, which is where we all have to arrive.

Experts believe, pure consciousness as the basic state from which the mystical experience is derived. Pure consciousness is healthy, life enhancing and promotes development and although its access is facilitated by the practice of being in the receptive-mode of consciousness, as against the usual reactive-mode; it is naturally experienced by all each day as states of consciousness are changed.

Therefore, essentially, everyone needs to be a mystic to arrive at a pure consciousness state and as we arrive at this stage, some mystical experiences shall happen as it is just a transitional state, the final destination is to use this platform of pure consciousness as launch vehicle to attain higher consciousness. That is why; in modern contemporary times of growing conflict, chaos and conundrum, we all need to be a pop mystic.

Seen in this light, experts say, mystical experiences are just symptoms and syndromes, which occur as we land in a state, which is achieved through “de-automization” of our instinctive action-mode body-mind synchronization. It is