a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
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obscure or irrational thought
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Mysticism \Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.] 1. Obscurity of doctrine.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
"We would train them to `fly' and that would be the end of all unfortunate evils in the world." The title maharishi signifies a Hindu teacher of mysticism.
"For a long time people were looking to Eastern religions and Eastern mysticism.
Widely practiced in Haiti where Roman Catholicism is the official religion, voodoo is a blend of Catholicism and Indian mysticism, with an emphasis on ancestor worship and harmony with nature.
You contrast that with what you call the Protestant evangelical movements' focus on "pragmatism" and "mysticism."
Expert predictions of new plagues, mysticism and millennial panic are all the more impressive for lack of portentousness or hysteria.
He seems fascinated by "Milagro's" folklore and mysticism but detached from it emotionally.
"There is a cliche Samson has to be 190 pounds," says Carreras, who is more slight than that. "I think Samson is a character you can play thinking about his mysticism.
She likes a bit of counter-culture (Jean-Paul Gaultier with his funky woman-shaped bottle) and a breath of Eastern mysticism (L'Eau D'Issey).
Coelho, a new-wave sorcerer with a touch for turning yarns of witchcraft and mysticism into best-selling books, has in one magic leap become Brazil's No. 1 literary sensation.
In his memoir "Three Journeys" he described his trip alone into the Sahara, his 10 years as a French communist, his sudden conversion to Hindu mysticism in a Manhattan ashram.
A bit of Greek Orthodoxy here, some Buddhism there, and a sprinkling of mysticism over everything.