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Where are the missing mystics of the revolution?

Mysticism can undermine the social and political order in fundamental ways.

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Dorothy Day and Mother Teresa at the Maryhouse office in New York City on June 17, 1979. Credit: Bill Barrett/ http://www.onbeing.org.

Hermits in caves or yogis on mountaintops: that’s how mystics are usually depicted. What could be further from the transformation of society? But what if mysticism was crucial to successful interaction, a missing ingredient in struggles for social change?