The task of thought in our time is to replace the lost religious and metaphysical foundation of morals by a secular and naturalistic foundation. - Walter Terence Stace

Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.

But it is not an exaggeration to say that mystical experience is everywhere unitary in the same sense that everywhere aesthetic experience is unitary. British, American, German, Indian, Chinese, Japanese art are of course very different from one another. Yet they have one root in their basic experience of beauty.

The incommensurability of the mystical with the sensory-intellectual consciousness is also the ultimate reason why we have to exclude visions and voices, telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance from the category of the mystical.