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Nature Mysticism

The experience of the divine, or of unity, in and through the natural world.

Philosophy and the study of mysticism

Nature mysticism is the sense, reported by poets such as Wordsworth and by many ordinary people, of being at one with the landscape, the sea or the night sky, and of seeing all things as alive with a single presence. Stace counted it as extrovertive mysticism; R. C. Zaehner thought it distinct from the theistic love of God.