Simon Critchley, On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy (Profile Books, 2024).

Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (Knopf, 2005)

Niklaus Largier, Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Neil MacGregor and Jonathan Ruffer, Inaugural McDonald Agape Lecture: Art and Christianity on Public Display (2024) video available here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/inaugural-mcdonald-agape-lecture-in-theology-and-the-visual-arts

Mystical Entanglements: Communities, Networks, and the (relational) Self in the History and Study of Mysticism Mystical Theology Network, deadline: 31.01.2025

https://mysticaltheologynetwork.org/upcoming/

https://www.upf.edu/web/cercca/fellowship

Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts Residencies, South Carolina USA.

https://fsa.art/residencies/

Artist in Residence, Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude, Idaho USA. https://stgertrudes.org/the-arts/

Grants for the Study and Practice of Christian Mysticism, Elizabeth Ann Memorial Fund, deadline: 01.03.2025 https://quakerfahe.com/2024/06/06/grants-for-the-study-and-practice-of-christian-mysticism/

https://www.bl.uk/whats-on/medieval-women/

Hilma af Klint @ Guggenheim Bilbao. Ends 02.02.2025

https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint

Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, London. Now closed, but the accompanying essay might be of interest: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/8uzch5mp/database/a0ea9ba20898da3732d7fe4da96c4fea62fa97e0.pdf

Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis, Paris. https://www.macsmto.fr Current exhibition: Le ciel intérieur, ends 06.04.2025.

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism, and the Cosmic Tree @ Camden Art Centre, London. https://www.botanicalmind.online

Art & Christianity https://artandchristianity.org

Mystical Theology Network https://mysticaltheologynetwork.org

Mysticism and Lived Experience Network https://mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com

Theology and the Visual Arts, King's College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/theology-and-the-visual-arts

Morphe Arts

https://www.morphearts.org

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (visual artist)

Hilma af Klint (visual artist/mystic)

Georgiana Houghton (visual artist/medium)

Caterina da Bologna/di Vigri (mystic/writer/painter)

Juan de la Cruz (mystic/writer/drawing)

This ornamental adoration produced a collection of around forty pieces extending into the 18th century.

​ “The Closed Gardens of the Soul” are tare mannequins exclusively covered in clothes taken from old folk dolls.

These heads question through their foundation as well as through their material the construction of myths, celebratory and fetishistic relationships, individual or collective." (from link above)