mystic

While deathly ill in 1373, a devout 30-year-old English mystic known as Julian of Norwich had a series of 16 visions of the divine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

What Lincoln called “the mystic chords of memory” will help hold stricken neighborhoods and neighbors together and will, over time, help knit together connections beyond roads and pipes and power grids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

We stayed and it didn’t snow and no tree fell, so naturally we forgot the whole thing and are wide open for more mystic feelings when they come.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Over centuries, similar conceptions of alien harbors grew in the minds of mystics and scientists, sometimes leading to fatal clashes with dominant religious doctrines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Baba is a commonly used term in India to refer to mystics and religious gurus and also to fathers or grandfathers by both Hindus and Muslims.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Myanmar has a rich culture of fortune-telling, and many believe the future can be discerned by mystics.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

In the cold dark of a November night, beneath the jagged cliffs of Zion National Park, Dani Hsia posed a question that mystics and religious thinkers have pondered for millenniums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

Not long after her twenty-first birthday, she started seeing mystics, conjurers, and Voodoo priests, all in an attempt to magnify her vision.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold