Problem of Mysticism in academic field

Mysticism is not new theme in academic discussion; it has widely speaking from many scholars since medieval eras. However, there is a wide array between mysticism in academic level and practical level. Academic level is not mystic practitioner; it is only learn to object from outside with straight methodology. However, mysticism in not usual phenomenon, like social and cultural objects, because it exist in the area where intellect and ratio cannot enter and understood it. Scholar only could have data from apart experience of mystic which is cannot be verified by methodology and modern worldview.
It is different from the mysticism in practice. Mystics never ask why, they are even close mind in order heart could attain the ultimate. They let heart, and all human potent to say “yes” all supernatural thing come to heart and body. There is not want, there is no intellect, the rest one is feeling of love and feeling of truth. They ready to enter unimagined condition where he will come to ecstatic state where no one feels he should be back. In that state, not only feeling of state, but also state of insight of the truth where between the creator and creature join in intimate.
Different standpoint between academic level and practice level is serious problem. Yet, that is the fact of the mysticism in academic level. Naturally speaking that mysticism is speaking of unspeaking. The experience of ultimate reality which personally experienced cannot be described and transferred another wholly except for people who have same experience. To get knowledge of mysticism, perhaps, will be able by reading, but it not means somebody will get mystical experience likes mystic. There are different language and measure of mystic and science or intellect. Mystical experience is by spiritual genius experience, not by mind. In addition, mystic is not prophet who can communicate their mystical experience with God to follower, mystic just experience it for personal people who limited by his/her language, culture, and memory of it experience.
However, many books resulted by the scholar which talks about mysticism not only covers mystical experience in which getting by straight method. In any case, gazing insight, getting new meaning from formulation, seeing the truth of concept, hallucination, anesthetic medicine can be classified as mystic experience where its experienced by people and believed it change his view of the reality and appealed to new understanding of life. William James explores different experience and acknowledgement of people who had mystical and close to mystical experience. The experience its self not all methodic, such as represented by Sufism, Buddhis and Hindu experience, and also Christian experience, whereas many of them are sporadic experience which stimulated by gazing of something that it could be “thing” or “nothing.” Thing is influenced by reflection of the material object who come to awareness, and nothing is high reflection like in Buddhis, Islam Christian in which existence and essence united.
Mystical concept of ultimate is lovable, attainable, and alive. The ultimate is will be near and become part of human in loving relationship. God is not part, because it attainable, and it could be nearer because they respond alive to human activity who want to near Him. Mysticism says oppositely to science and modern method. Ginn says, “what the world, which truly know nothing, calls ‘mysticism’ is the science of ultimate.. the science of self evident reality, which cannot be “reasoned about, because of the object of reason or perception.”