The Secret Power of Mysticism Revealed!

How do they do it the mystic pedlars? Obscurantism. The faux profundity of the language of mysticism with its  deliberate vagueness,its linguistic ambivalences and approximations  intimidates  people into thinking it is too deep for them to fathom, they should just accept it, who are they the humble to question the mysteries, it is only their prideful intellect that would make them presume they could possibly grasp it with their limited fallen human understanding. That is all mysticism requires of them to gain its desired ascendancy over their minds and ensure total compliance.

One only has to speak with those who have bought the mysticism scam to see the results in the conversation that ensues with the evasive language, the fuzziness of expression, words bent to mean something completely different from their common usage, the sheer elasticity of words  scrambled to the point of inanition, is the common stock of mysticism as it throws up a fog of words and leaves a trail of confusion in its wake.

Its our fault we cannot understand it you see, we are too earthly, too literal and precise in our language, we demand clarity, logic, reason, we are too intellectual, souless, prideful, daring to question the mysterium, relying on mere words - don't we understand -'the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life'? But we point out,  those are words! Without words you cannot convey how unimportant words are, it's a contradiciton!. There you go again says the mystic -it's a divine mystery. And so it goes on Yada yada yada. Words mean what we want them to mean, give up your prideful intellect.

Thus the mysticism fraud holds its victims in total thrall and it is the most insidious of all scams because the most pervasive and all consuming. To destroy a culture first the language has to be destroyed. The precision and clarity of language gives it it's strength and resilience. The biggest enemy of freedom is the destruction and undermining of language and thus of meaning. Once that is done tyranny has a clear run.