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
But mysticism also holds sway behind the closed door of politics.
From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025
Amid the devastation, strains of oddball mysticism have arisen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Jones, who has lost both parents in the last six years, says she’s also been reading books about Celtic mysticism, sorrow and connecting to nature.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025
He'd see Rinehart simply as a criminal, my obsession as a fall into pure mysticism .
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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