New This Year · 2026

The New Mystic
Becoming Mystical.

172 pages of essays, prayers, and poetry charting one woman's pilgrimage through twelve phases of becoming — rooted in the Carmel coast, Irish soil, plant medicine, and the Christian mystical tradition reimagined for our time.

The New Mystic
Tara Ryan

A Book of Pilgrimage

An offering of words.
A map of the long way home.

The New Mystic is structured as a journey through twelve phases — Unlearning, Grief, Accepting, Strengthening, Connecting, Recognizing, Forgiving, Beauty, Creation, Resting, Love, and Remembering. Within each phase are essays, prayers, and original poems written on the path itself.

It is a book for anyone who has felt themselves to be a mystic and had nowhere to bring the experience. A book for those leaving religion who do not want to leave the sacred. A book for those whose contemplative life is real and unspoken.

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I have spent years learning what you, the reader, might already know: that Mysticism has existed long before religions, mythologies, and certainly today's spiritual practices — but isn't there a thread of it throughout all? In all of us? That perhaps throughout the years we have set aside the easiest way to experience Divine light and love, and that is to recognize it as an inherent light and vibration within each and every one of us, delivered in perfection at the birth of our soul as a human, here on Earth.

"This book is an offering of my words. My thoughts on my personal journey in recognizing myself as a mystical person, and how I have managed — at moments — to fuse my heart, mind and soul over the last years in learning and experiencing divine teachings from guides, nature and sacred experiences and ceremonies." From the Introduction

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Early words

[Endorsement to come from a mystical theologian] — Endorsement TK
[Endorsement to come from a contemplative teacher] — Endorsement TK

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"For my love creatures — and for every soul ready to remember."

— Dedication