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[mis-tik] / ˈmɪs tɪk /


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I meditated for 15 minutes, listening to a recording of the Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru repeating: “I am not the body. I am not even the mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

It was this identification with Derbyshire that led Tutti to write Re-Sisters in 2002, which also focused on another non-conformist woman, the medieval Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

He was particularly intrigued by the school of mystic painters inspired by the West Coast’s landscapes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

Healy Lake members, Combs said, have long considered their dogs to be mystic companions.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

Carrel was a mystic who believed in telepathy and clairvoyance, and thought it was possible for humans to live several centuries through the use of suspended animation.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Formula 1 is about physics and not mystics.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Muslims ruled large parts of India from the early 13th to the 19th century, and during this era Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics actively proselytized for Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

"They treat a whole host of maladies," said Thomas Patton, a professor at New York state's Union College who has studied Myanmar's mystics.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Unlike some of the bolder mystics of medieval Europe, however, she is relatively circumspect about her powers and thus attracts little unwanted attention.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

Christian mystics devoted much energy to deciphering the number 666, said by John the Apostle to designate the name of the Beast of the Apocalypse, the Antichrist.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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