Elahi Ghomshei; Scholar, philosopher and author with his family

Discerning what is truly spiritual from what is falsely or only apparently spiritual is a task that mystics everywhere address, though they differ in their approaches to the problem. Shamans and other mystics embrace pantheons that define the scope of the spiritual, partly by deduction from the perceptible world and partly through mythology. Ancient thinkers in the Platonic tradition subjected the spiritual to philosophical investigation.