Mysticism

Mystical philosophy holds that reality's deepest nature — whether understood as God, the Absolute, the Dao, or pure consciousness — can be directly experienced rather than merely reasoned about. Spanning traditions from Plotinus and Meister Eckhart to Sufism, Kabbalah, and Hindu non-dualism, mysticism insists that the highest knowledge is not propositional but transformative: a union with what is most real that transcends the subject–object divide.