Important works on Mystics vs. Organized Religion?

[IndolEuropeanist]

Can anyone give me references in the scholarly literature to the cultural conflict or at least dichotomy between mystics and organized religion? Either general discussions or, for example, mainstream Christianity vs. the Gnostics or other mystics; early Yoga vs. the Vedas; Taoists vs. other Chinese religions, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ThomasDidymus]

Find out about Meister Eckhart and John of the Cross.

(The Dark Night of the Soul)