There are Christians and Muslims who denounce mysticism as being dangerous while there have also been Christian and Muslim mystics. Transformatsiya is a fictional religion created from the influence of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and was formed through mysticism and contact with the spiritual being Tanisha who revealed previous religious teachings to the early followers. Part of the religious teachings include how to safely understand the influence of the spirit world.
Under the religious Zakon Law, mysticism and occult rituals are restricted to sanctioned mystics because ignorant exploration of the spirit world is incredibly dangerous and is likely to lead to demonic possession or influence.
Unsanctioned mysticism is punished by mandatory intervention from social workers of the PKVD, court order to see a psychiatrist who is a sanctioned mystic, or in extreme cases confinement to a mental hospital where they would receive spiritual guidance.
All the prophets up to Tanisha (who is a spirit) are considered mystics who received divine revelations from God or his messengers through the spirit world.
In the Bright Way, scientific research is considered a form of contemplative prayer. To meditate on the mysteries of Creation is to grow closer to the Creator. More familiar forms of mysticism also exist, such as the steadtree hermits, who are similar to the Egyptian pillar hermits.
In Neoshamanism, consciousness is believed to be woven throughout the fabric of the universe in something called the noosphere (3 syllables, NO-uh-sphere, not NOO-sphere). Consciousness can become apparent in any physical system, with more complex physical systems being more conscious. The brains of sapient beings are the most complex physical systems and are thus the most conscious. Every idea that has ever or will ever exist is already present in the noosphere, and neoshamanist mystics seek to map out the noosphere through meditation.
The Bright Way also uses the term noosphere, but instead of the noosphere giving rise to consciousness, consciousness gives rise to the noosphere. In Claravian philosophy the noosphere is more a way of looking at things rather than a tangible force, though they do speak of it in the same way a human might speak of “mother nature”. The noosphere emerges from the biosphere when a species becomes sapient, just as the biosphere emerges out of the geosphere as life comes to be. It’s the sum total of the thoughts and social connections of all sophonts. The Bright Way believes they have a divine mandate to unite the hitherto isolated noospheres of all sapient species, which is why they undertake interstellar mission work.
The Farspeakers, a Claravian religious order, speak of the noosphere possessing a “body”, which is any physical means of communicating, which in modern times mostly means the Internet. They believe they have a sacred duty to tend to the body of the noosphere, and see the union of two noospheres as the physical connection between the two respective Internets.