​The Practice of Mystery
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To Accept the Complex, To Cherish the Baffling.
To Welcome the Amazing, To Embrace the Inscrutable.

The Practice of Mystery is Mysticism with Open Eyes.

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Orbis Integra - About the Video

"The baffling is not the absence of inquiry,
it is the presence of wonder."
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The Practice of Mystery
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To be spiritual is to have an abiding respect for the great mysteries of life — the profound distinctiveness of other souls, the strange beauty of nature and the animal world, the ineffable complexity of our inner selves, the unfathomable depths of the Inexplicable One. The wisdom traditions challenge us to live within a cloud of unknowing.
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The first step in the practice of mystery is to cherish the baffling, curious, hidden, and inscrutable dimensions of your existence and the world around you. Live with paradoxes. Give up the idea that you can always "get it." Be suspicious of all the "ologies" that try to explain everything — from astrology to psychology to theology. Whenever you are honestly stumped by the existence of evil, injustice, or suffering, resist the temptation to ask "Why?" And never be afraid to admit "I don't know."

-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

​"Whenever I hear someone applying a system of explanations  for good fortune or illness,
I vow to respect ​the complexity
​and mystery of life."

​                                        -- Frederic Brussat

The Practice of Mystery
is one of many forms of Spirituality

About the Wheel of Spirituality

​"Truth be told, we don't practice Mystery.
Mystery practices us.  It is the presence
of Multiplicity.  The Beauty of the Plural."

Mysticism with Open Eyes

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
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