mysticism

As the story piles up coincidences—or “synchronicities,” to use the Jungian term Shoma favors—it increasingly aligns with Hindu mysticism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Her work courses with an assured mysticism that makes her feel so emblematic of L.A. itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

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

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

The Mormon people have a system of their own, somewhat complex, and gathered from the mysticisms of all the ages.

From Conditions in Utah Speech of Hon. Thomas Kearns of Utah, in the Senate of the United States by Thomas Kearns

Here he soon became disgusted with the mysticisms of the schoolmen.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

They took refuge in the most sombre of mysticisms, or, at least, in dogmatism of the narrowest kind.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz

His brain was becoming too crammed with queries, with strange happenings and with the aggravating mysticisms of the life into which his father's death had thrown him to permit clearness of vision.

From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

He is not a poet dealing in mysticisms, but a rhetorical philosopher, propounding startling theories, partly true and partly false, which he logically enforces with matchless eloquence.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by John Lord