The reactions to the direct and hard-core mystical concentration are powerful. Every strained concentration has a danger contained in it that the consciousness will narrow down and then, instead of the development of the ability to obtain knowledge, only a property to become fixed will develop. This is though, a ground for the development of overwhelming emotions and drives, and also of the emotional clinging; by their action a person transfers from the path of knowledge to a path of indulging; however, in this case only a dreamlike indulging which is thus very far from reality. This ending of, possibly even good, initial mystical efforts is quite a usual phenomenon. It is caused by the dilettantism, with which the mystical training is approached. Well, nothing can be done. Mysticism is not a scientific discipline and therefore we can find, even among the inexperienced mystics, a lot of seeming authorities whose work is now funny, now harmful and now malign. It is necessary to achieve a concentration, which will become the Aqua regia and the analyser of everything that exists and which must never become the causative agent of experiences, regardless of whether they are mystical, or only emotional. Acknowledgement Published with the permission of Mrs. Zora Šubrtová, the copyright owner. References Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson, eds. 2004. Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th Edition [CD]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 3rd Edition. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Minařík, Květoslav. 1992. Malý mystický slovník naučný [Small Mystical Encyclopaedia]. Prague: Canopus.* * A Small Mystical Encyclopaedia, which was originally meant to be a glossary for his own books about mysticism, grew in the hands of Květoslav Minařík until it became a book of popular science, accessible to every person interested in the spiritual teachings. It explains the basic terms of the spiritual teachings and their relationships to other scientific fields. Spirituality Studies 1 (2) Fall 2015 43 (11)
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