I was reading something about the speaker Neville Goddard when I ran across a name I hadn’t heard before. The name was for the mystic Abdullah, an Ethiopian man who emigrated to the United States during a time of racial prejudice and seemed to thrive despite it. He could sit in a racially segregated opera house and not be bothered. Emanating some sort of power or control over himself and others. Abdullah taught that despite external circumstances, the mind could control reality. I’ve had doubts about Goddard’s philosophy; however, I was curious to see how Abdullah influenced him and whether Abdullah could be correct in any way.
Saint Teresa of Avila as an Interspiritual Mystic
Teresa of Avila’s ‘epic life’ inspired George Elliot’s book Middlemarch, and even Florence Nightingale described Teresa as ‘the most active of the mystics’. Teresa…