Comments on: “An Author is Not Famous Until After He Dies”

By: Ron Krumpos

Ron Krumpos — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:56:37 +0000

Carl,

While I also study the great mystics of the past, there are many 20th C. mystics who are quite important. Mysticism is a living tradition.

Judaism’s Abraham Isaac Kook, Islam’s Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Hinduism’s Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Christianity’s Thomas Merton, and Buddhism’s
14th Dalai Lama.

Also, secular mystics like Dag Hammarskjold, former Secretary General of the U.N., Vaclav Havel, past President of the Czech Republic, Ramesh Balsekar, C.E.O. of the Bank of India, Arthur Eddington, Britain’s famous physicist.

Some contemporary female mystics: Christianity: Bernadette Roberts. Hinduism: Anandi Ma, and Amritanandamayi Ma. Islam: Hatice Hanim, and Hagga Zakiyya. Buddhism: Dipa Ma, and Daw Yusanda

By: Carl McColman

Carl McColman — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:35:18 +0000

I think it’s important when reading Merton or Main or Keating or any of the other contemporary/recent authors, to immerse ourselves in the texts they would have studied — which is why I keep turning back to the great mystics of the past. And as for my experience, I find the writers of the past to be just as accessible and just as useful as anything written in the last fifty to seventy-five years.

By: noel

noel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:11:53 +0000

by the way i think more accessible and also more useful are the writings and reflections of john main ,bede griffiths, abhishiktananda……….i guess you could say these are more contemporary journeyers on the mystic path

By: noel

noel — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:35:49 +0000

yes carl i have de caussade s book. it is excellent. it seems to be written for the benefit of nuns. it is i think more examination of conscience than teaching