Mysticism, a quest of the hidden Truth or Wisdom ("the treasure hidden in the centers of our souls") is experiencing in our dehumanized and 'desacralized' modern times a renewed interest and understanding and even a mood of expectancy similar to that which had marked its role in previous eras. Such a mood, originally inherent in the human soul, stems in part from the feeling of alienation that many people experience in the modern world. Put down as a religion of the elite, mysticism (or the mystical faculty of perceiving transcendental Reality) is said by many authentic teachers to belong to all men, though it is actualized only in the few.
Aldous Huxley, author of "Perennial Philosophy," has stated that "a totally unmystical world would be totally blind and insane," and the poet-sage Rabindranath Tagore has noted that "Man has a feeling that he is truly represented in something which transcends himself."
The Philosophia Perennis Group is dedicated to the posting of such inspirational, mystical and trans-religious texts as representative of the transcendent unity of all spiritual traditions, beyond space and time.