Studies of physics, biology, and the human brain have led enlightened scientists such as Stanislas Grof, Fritjof Capra, Rupert Sheldrake, David Darling, William Keepin, and Fred Alan Wolf to theorize on the scientific reality of dreams, past lives, astrology, and other occult phenomena. Still, of all the phenomena associated with spirituality, perhaps the least understood is mysticism. The mind becomes dissociated from material reality, and one can experience revelations of supposed spiritual truths, receive telepathic messages, see visions, hear music or voices, or feel as if one is leaving the earthly plane. One sees nothing, either within or without, but while seeing nothing the soul understands quite clearly who it is and where it is and sometimes even what he means to tell it. How and by what means it understands it does not know, but so it is, and while this is happening it cannot fail to know it.
Some scientists see mysticism as a mental illness.
Certainly some mystics have been rather strange. Still, enough psychologists have accepted the reality of the mystical experience, and have theorized extensively about it. His ideas parallel those of Patricia Diane Cota-Robles, director of the New Age Study of Humanity s Purpose and author of several books on consciousness. Mystic is a word used to describe someone who is reaching a higher level of our natural human potential. Their business has been to know a Truth ahead of others, and impart it in their own unique fashion to the culture of their time.