LIST OF MYSTICS

A 'Mystic' is a person who practices mysticism. Mysticism is a belief in the existence of a greater reality or realities which, typically 1) is beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension, 2) is not only more true than 'ordinary reality', but also a necessity to understand in order to understand this world, and 3) is directly accessible by subjective experience, (which may be also involve practice or training).[1] Different cultural and religious groups will emphazise these three traits in different combinations, seeing them as more or less important. Mysticism is different from ordinary religious belief and practices in that the experiences are subjectively more intense, almost always involves a conscious awareness of difference from the general community, usually are accompanied by intellectual reflection, and frequently involve deliberate withdrawal from the community, (often to spiritual communities). Ultimately, almost all cultural varieties of mysticism seek either a direct consciousness of, or a merging into, the ultimate reality or God.

Contents

Mystics by Tradition

Hindu mystics

Chinese mystics

Christian mystics

Islamic mystics

Jewish mystics

Mormon mystics

Other mystics

Mystics by Tradition

Hindu mystics

★ Adi Sankara

★ Ananda Moyi Ma

★ Andal

★ Aurobindo

★ Caitanya Mahaprabhu

★ Chinmayananda

★ Dayananda Saraswati

★ Gajanan Maharaj

★ Gopi Krishna

★ Gurudev R D Ranade

★ Lalleshvari

★ Lokenath

★ Mata Amritanandamayi or Ammachi

★ Madhvacharya

★ Mirabai

★ Narada Muni

★ Nārāyana Guru(1856-1928)

★ Prabhupada

★ Prasanna

★ Sri Ramakrishna

★ Ramana Maharshi

★ Ramanuja

★ Ramesh Balsekar

★ Sai Baba

★ Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

★ Sathya Sai Baba

★ Sivananda

★ Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

★ Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji

★ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

★ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

★ Swaminarayan

★ Tukaram

★ Vivekananda

★ Yogananda

Chinese mystics

★ Laozi (Lao-tzu)

★ Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu)

★ Ge Hong (Ko Hung)

★ Zhi Daolin (Chih Tao-lin)

★ Zhang Sanfeng (Chang San-feng)

★ Zhang Zai (Chang Tsai)

Christian mystics

★ Jesus of Nazareth (1-31)

★ St. John the Apostle (? -101) (Apostle and disciple)

★ Clement of Alexandria (? -216) (Church Father, especially the Eastern Church)

★ St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) (Church Father, especially the Western Church)

★ St. Gregory I (590-604) (Church Father)

★ Saint Anselm (1033-1109) (Catholic)

★ Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) (Catholic)

★ Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) (Catholic)

★ St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) (Catholic)

★ Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) (Catholic)

★ Albertus Magnus (1206-1280) (Catholic)

★ Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1279) (Catholic)

★ St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1275) (Catholic)

★ Angela of Foligno - (c.1248-1309) ) (Catholic)

★ Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1327/8) (Catholic)

★ Richard Rolle (c. 1290 - 1349) (Catholic)

★ St. Gregory Palamas (1296 - 1359) (Eastern Orthodox)

★ St. Bridget of Sweden (1302-1373) (Catholic)

★ Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) (Catholic)

★ St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) (Catholic)

★ Margery Kempe (c.1373-1438) (Catholic)

★ Marguerite Porete/Marguerite of Hainaut (d.1310) (Hainaut, Belgium)

★ Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) (Catholic)

★ St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) (Catholic)

★ St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) (Catholic)

★ Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629) (Catholic)

★ Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) (Non-denominational)

★ Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) (Non-denominational)

★ Michael de Molinos (1628-1696) (Catholic)

★ Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) (Swedenborgism)

★ Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) (Catholic)

★ Rufus Jones (1863-1948) (Quaker)

★ Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) (Catholic)

★ Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) (Catholic)

★ Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963)

★ Daniil Andreev (1906-1959) (Eastern Orthodox)

★ Simone Weil (1909-1943) (Catholic)

★ Anthony de Mello (priest) (1931-1987) (Catholic)

★ Vassula Ryden (1942- ) (Greek Orthodox)

Islamic mystics

★ Uwais al-Qarni,

★ Harrm Bin Hian,

★ Hasan al-Basri,

★ Rabia,

★ al-Muhasibi,

★ al-Junayd,

★ Ibn Arabi,

★ al-Ghazali, (d. 1111)

★ Kharaqani, Abul-Hassan

★ al Hallaj (d. 922)

★ Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi

★ Sadi

★ Abdul Qadir Gilani

★ Abu Yazid Bistami aka ''Bayazid of Bistam''

★ Abusaeid Abolkheyr

★ Farid al-Din Attar

★ Jami

★ Mahmud Shabistari

★ Mawlana Faizani, (20th Century)

★ Yunus Emre

★ Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207 – 1273)

★ Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, aka ''Khwaja Gareeb Nawaz''

★ Qalandar Baba Auliya

★ Amir Khusro

★ Shahbaz Qalander

Jewish mystics

★ Shimon bar Yochai (c.200)

★ Bahya ben Yosef Ibn Pakuda (c.1040 - c.1080)

★ Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (c.1176 - 1238)

★ Nachmanides (1194 - c. 1270)

★ Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (1240-1291)

★ Joseph Chiquitilla (Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla) (1248 - c.1305)

★ Moses de Leon (c. 1250-1305)

★ Bahya ben Asher (12?? - 1340)

★ Joseph Caro (1488 - 1575)

★ Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz (c.1500 – 1580)

★ Moshe Cordevero (1522-1570)

★ Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 – 1609)

★ Isaac Luria (1534-1572)

★ Chaim Vital (1543 - 1620)

★ Israel ben Eliezer (1698 – 1760)

★ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746)

★ Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810)

★ Abraham Isaac Kook (1864-1935)

Mormon mystics

★ Joseph Smith, Sr. (1771-1840)

★ Eliza R. Snow (1804-1887)

★ Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844)

★ Joseph F. Smith (1838-1918)

★ Hugh Nibley (1910-2005)

Other mystics

★ Joseph Beuys

★ Meher Baba

★ Gurdjieff

★ David R. Hawkins

★ Jiddu Krishnamurti

★ Plotinus (Neo-Platonist)

★ Sollog

★ Emanuel Swedenborg

★ Chapel Tibet

★ Richard Rose]

★ Eckhart Tolle]

★ U. G. Krishnamurti

★ Osho, (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)