What is causing society to degenerate into chaos at the moment is a mystery, for this unanswered scientific question can only be answered through genuine mystical experience, as the foundation of a mathematical model that maps the entire history of evolution since the most recent big bang, some fourteen billion years ago.
Although many millions intuitively sense that there is a primary-secondary relationship between the Formless Absolute and the relativistic world of form, rationally expressed in the Cosmic Equation, this understanding is not yet enough to free even people living in the second tier of the spectrum of consciousness from their cultural conditioning.
So, to what extent humanity could awaken to total revolution, as Vimala Thakar advised, before the imminent extinction of our species, is still an unresolved mystery.
Before 1333, mysterye ‘secret or hidden thing, religious doctrine beyond human understanding’, from Latin mystērium ‘mystery, secret service, rite and worship (usually plural); secret, things not divulged’, from Greek mustērion ‘secret rite’, from mustēs ‘one who has been initiated’, from mūein ‘to close the eyes, initiate (into the mysteries); instruct’, from PIE base *mū- ‘to murmur, be silent’.
Note. Mystery, in mystery play ‘a medieval drama based on events from the Bible’, has a different root from mystic. In this sense, mystery derives from mysterye ‘ministry, service’, about 1390, from Medieval Latin misterium, alteration (influenced by Latin mystērium ‘secret rite’) of Latin ministerium, from minister ‘assistant, servant’ (opposite to magister ‘master’), from PIE base *mei-² ‘small’, also root of minor, minuet, minutiae, diminish, and ministry.
Mystery plays were so called because they were often performed by members of craft guilds, known as mysteries. The two senses of mystery formed a common pun in (secular) Tudor theatre. For instance, William Shakespeare made such a play on words in Timon of Athens and Measure for Measure.