Reply #10: There are many lost gospels. Just look at the [View All]

[leftyladyfrommo]

Nag Hammadi Library. It is a whole collection of very early works.

The Gospel of Mary is very incomplete - just a little is left of it.

However, the Gospel of Thomas is complete and has been found in more than one language. Thomas was a mystic. He is also known as St. Jude. (Judas Thomas - not to be confused with Judas Ascariot)

Mystics are kind of the same no matter what the religion they come from. Mystics meditate and meditate and meditate.

I use the Prayer of St. Francis for my meditations. Or sometimes I just do a Zen kind of meditation - which is simply breathing in and out and clearing the mind.

Some western mystics get all caught up in the idea of ectasy - and a lot of the early Christian mystics did that as well. I'm not really into that stuff. I think it is very possible that the mind has a place where one can reach an ecstatic place and it has nothing to do with God. It is just another obstacle on the way - like getting caught up in the lights.