Natural Metaphors: Expressions of Mystical Experience in John of the Cross, Etty Hillesum, and Björk
Religions December 4, 2025 Anderson Fabián Santos Meza
In the twenty-first century, academic approaches to mysticism often risk reducing the Mystery to an object of erudition and historical distance, as if mystical experience belonged solely to a pre-modern past. Yet, when one encounters the “natural metaphors” that emerge within mystical writings—images of rivers, gardens, fire, and wind—it becomes almost impossible to silence the invitation to...