Father Peter on Christian Mysticism

Father Peter Bowes is an ordained Priest and Master Teacher in the Order of Christ/Sophia. He is also an accomplished musician with five albums to his credit. He travels nationally; giving workshops on the Inner Mystical Path. For more information go to http://www.askfatherpeter.com/

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[ruzickaw]

Why do you have to find God when you go within? This is a preconcept. When Buddhists look inside they dont find any god but emptiness.

[ruach2351]

@ruzickaw They usually do not go deeply enough, because if they did, they would find God at the center of their being.

[ruzickaw]

@ruach2351 Have you ever practiced buddhist meditation , to find out how deep it goes? I doubt.

[ruach2351]

@ruzickaw of course.

[AschersOil]

Please show me Bible verse about Christian Mysticism. There is not such thing, I forgive you, but you need to stop telling lies because you are accountable for your teaching. Please you are an abomination to Christ. You must stop preaching this.

[ruach2351]

@AschersOil Everything about Jesus was mystical. His saying bread and wine was his body and blood is mystical. He conversations with his father was mystical experience of God. Anything not definable to the 5 senses, whereby a person experiences something higher than those, is mystical - by definition. Please read up on the definition of words before you make rash judgments or other people St. Teresa, St. Francis with the stigmata were mystics.

[Teresitaddw]

Fr. Ruach I understand as a Catholic that God is not an "energy"but a Divine Person, with a Divine Intellect, Memory and Will. I find it strange that you use this terminology to refer to the teachings of Jesus to His disciples. It sounds New Age to me... would u pls clarify.

[mysticalwoodsman]

"It is not for everyone, it is for those who really want to know" (through experience)... beautifully stated.

[flamesofthelord]

@ruach2351 I agree, Father Peter's teachings do confirm my own experiences in my life and especially as a Christian.

[CorrineCarrington]

@ruach2351 I respect your work so much, I see the negative satanic people full of haughtiness and arrogance trying to tear you down, because you have stepped out of the traditional false teachings that we have all been taught to believe. Some people would rather continue being deceived instead of researching and thinking outside of the box. People who say we only find emptiness when we look within and not god, are speaking of their own dark souls. I love you father peter!!!

[violashutters]

God can be experienced in one's soul. There is no way one can describe how amazing the experience is which is ongoing. The bible is nothing but a book describing the road to experiencing God within oneself. God is love. A love that is beyond the human love we experience everyday. It is a physical sensation that comes into the body the soul and changes one's relationship with the material world.

[ruzickaw]

Why did you not accept my commentarym just because i do not agree with you?

[AschersOil]

@ruach2351 I can understand why you feel that JC was mystic, it common misleading teaching of this age. I think you are confusing "mystical" with "spiritual". Please read the Bible before calling yourself a christian. God the father is not a nebulous god a "something" higher. Jesus did not contemplate his relationship, he prayed and glorified. Mysticism by most definition relates to the occult which the Bible repeatedly and forcefully rejects. Regarding your title "Father" read Mtthw 23:9.