Returning to the Mystics: Rediscovering the Kingdom Within

Early mystics and psychedelic explorers have found what religion has promised but never delivered: the Kingdom of Heaven within.

The Lost Wisdom of Early Mystics

There was a time, before the councils of men gathered to define the divine, when the experience of God was as wild as the wind across the Celtic hills, as still as the waters of the Dead Sea, and as fiery as the visions of early mystics. This was a time when spirituality was lived, not taught in churches, and the connection with the divine was not mediated by pulpits, temples, or the approval of priests. This was the time of the Celts, the Essenes, and the mystics—those who sought direct communion with the divine without the bindings of institutional dogma, which has changed the Christ message over time.

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Celts, Essenes, + Mystics: A Direct Path to God

In the hills and forests of the Celtic lands, the sacred was felt in the very earth beneath their feet. The Celts understood that the divine flowed through all of nature, that each tree was a symbol, each river a passageway to the unseen. They didn't need doctrine to tell them of…