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
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
Set at Chiddinglye Estate, a 15th-century farm in West Sussex, England, the three-day event includes fungus-focused art installations, lectures and gastronomy; educational walks; and lots of music, mysticism and science—sometimes all three at once.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Though the technique is the exact opposite of most techniques of mysticism it probably is a mystical discipline, tending towards the experience of Immanence; but I can’t categorize any practice of the Handdarata with certainty.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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