Quaker Views on Mysticism

This pamphlet grew from the author's search for ways to interpret and respond to the joyful, but none-the-less life-shattering, mystical experiences that have changed her life. It considers how Friends today recognize and respond to the guidance of the Inward Light of Christ and describes varying Quaker views on mysticism and the mystical, touching upon the need to continually test leadings in the silence of Quaker worship and in the arms of Quaker community. In the mid-1990s, the author in...