Metaphysics of Awakening the Heart: The Faculty of Truth-Seeing in Christian and Sufi Mysticism

What if the heart is not just an emotional center but the axis of perception itself—the mirror through which we know what is true?

In this reflection, I trace the metaphysics of the heart across Christian and Sufi mysticism—drawing from St. Teresa of Ávila, Al-Ghazali, Jungian psychology, and the esoteric teachings of al-Buni and the Chishti tradition.

The heart is not a metaphor here. It is a living organ of truth-seeing—a vessel of Divine presence and a site of both rupture and return.

We explore how the spiritual journey unfolds within the heart through layered states of longing, surrender, ego-death, and mystical union.

This is not a call to idealism. It’s a reckoning with our humanity. In a world that often abandons the soul for spectacle, to awaken the heart is to remember who we are—and who we are not.