Paper Details

Name: Gurkamal Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2015
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 69-75

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes" - Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman an American poet, essayist and journalist was a great mystic. Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman was the most innovative and influential poet of the nineteenth century. A mystic is a person who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect. Mystical experience is as old as humanity, it is not confined to any race. The term 'mysticism' comes from the Greek meaning 'to conceal'. In the Hellenistic world, 'mystical' referred to "secret" religious truths. Whereas in early Christianity the term came to refer to "hidden" allegorical interpretations of Scriptures and to hidden presences, such as that of Jesus at the Eucharist. Later the term begin to denote "mystical theology" which included direct experience of the divine.