I thought it helpful to remind myself why I fit into the category of mystic. It's a trajectory I've been on most of my life.
Summary
Mysticism: is the practice of pursuing spiritual insight.
A mystic is a person who engages in mysticism, aiming for spiritual union or knowledge.
Once they've awakened to the Divine and their consciousness has been united with the Divine, the mystic sets out into the everyday world.
A mystic is a person who believes in or seeks direct spiritual knowledge and union with the divine or ultimate reality, often through prayer, meditation, and intuition, rather than through ordinary human senses or intellect. As an adjective, mystic describes something that is spiritually significant, mysterious, symbolic, or beyond normal human comprehension.
A mystic is a person who has experienced, or believes in the possibility of, profound spiritual insights or direct contact with the divine, a state beyond rational thought.
They are devoted to spiritual understanding rather than material gain, focusing on the inner life and the path of spirituality.
Mystic: can refer to practices or symbols that are esoteric, otherworldly, or spiritually significant.
It can also describe qualities that are mysterious, awesome, or have a spiritual power that is hard to explain.
The word relates to or is characteristic of mysticism, the belief in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension.
Yup, fits me pretty well!