Modern mystics are quite user-friendly--but the early Christian saints encouraged us to sail into some deep waters. This week, Dave Schmelzer explores the kind of unity with God that early greats like Augustine and Athanasius encouraged us was the central goal of being alive--and was what offered the hope of immortality to come.
Mentioned on this podcast:
Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor
Mystics quoted from Journey to the Heart, edited by Kim Nataraja and from The Roots of Christian Mysticism, edited by Olivier Clement
Richard Rohr's book What the Mystics Know. His book The Naked Now is also touched upon.
John 14:20, John 17:21; Galatians 2:20; Genesis 28:16; Psalm 95
