mysticism
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Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
These highly autobiographical works draw on her Afro-Brazilian heritage, radiate with mysticism and focus on womanhood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Photographer Sebastian Pii is the perfect guide through the bewildering mysticism of Colombian writer-director Augusto Sandino’s debut.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
But mysticism also holds sway behind the closed door of politics.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
Strictly speaking, Brahe and Kepler weren’t quite the last mystics—but they certainly were, in astronomy at least, transitional figures between the mysticism of the Ancients and the science of Galileo and his successors.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing mysticism
The Old Man and the Sea
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Ghost Squad
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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