3 Types of Mystics?

[Darin Hamel]

Mystics experience or interact with the universe primarily through one of three faculties, the gut (will-power), the heart (feelings-love), or the head (intellect-philosophy). It all depends on the personal temperament of the individual. All mystics experience the same things but it’s the descriptions that differ. Like three different witnesses trying to describe the same event.

Power mystics seek an inner unity that is like a dynamic power (I was raptured into the uncreated light of unlimited power) and they desire transcendence. Heart mystics seek a personal God who is like a spouse (I was raptured and felt His or Her infinite love) and they desire union.
Philosophical mystics seek a transcendent Creator who is like an infinite reality (I was raptured and unfathomable mysteries were revealed to me) and they desire the ultimate truth. One is not a higher path than another and each contains the others to different degrees.
Are there any others?

[Naomi]

Hmm, that's interesting.

What about getting lost in darkness and chaos? I remember that being one of my first profoundly mystic experiences.

[Kath]

Mystics experience or interact with the universe primarily through one of three faculties, the gut (will-power), the heart (feelings-love), or the head (intellect-philosophy). It all depends on the personal temperament of the individual. All mystics experience the same things but it’s the descriptions that differ. Like three different witnesses trying to describe the same event.

Power mystics seek an inner unity that is like a dynamic power (I was raptured into the uncreated light of unlimited power) and they desire transcendence. Heart mystics seek a personal God who is like a spouse (I was raptured and felt His or Her infinite love) and they desire union.
Philosophical mystics seek a transcendent Creator who is like an infinite reality (I was raptured and unfathomable mysteries were revealed to me) and they desire the ultimate truth. One is not a higher path than another and each contains the others to different degrees.
Are there any others?
are these so seperate?
I feel a fairly strong identification to all three.

Kath

[Darin Hamel]

There not seperate, I just think some people embody one more than others.

[Kuroyagi]

I also must say that those are the faculties I put much emphasis on. Tendentially I concentrate much more on the upper chakras, its much fun.

[m1thr0s]

psychic. I was just getting ready to say that these are very chakra-based definitions and got pulled away...3rd, 4th & 5th chakras to be most accurate I think...

there may in fact be at least a couple other categories but they are more tenuous. In particular is a category possibly corresponding to the 6th chakra we might call the *lightning-struck* (for want of a better term). This defines people who have been hit with a powerful mystical experience that they are now primarily attempting to recover...to *remember* or perhaps *assimilate* correctly. I feel like this is necessarily a different category than the others as it is both motivated differently and also finds its way differently.

following the 7th chakra we have the notion of the *boddhisatva* who is actually already there but may not have a complete recognition of his own highest consciousness. this is the more theoretical of the 5 but it is a classification at least worth considering I think...the boddhisatva is actually more focused on the world than upon himself since his own personal liberation is no longer at issue...

I'm just pushing the envelope a little here. These may yet resolve back into the three...I'm not really sure...

m1thr0s