"Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both," Fritjof Capra wrote in his 1975 best seller, "The Tao of Physics," which explores parallels between quantum physics and Eastern mysticism.
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JO: I think all symbols like these start losing their mysticism once we start knowing more about them — their mysticism comes from not understanding them.
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Sufism is a school of Islam known for its mysticism.
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It's a pretty straightforward narrative, apart from the mysticism aspect.
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The Grand Lodge is filled with evidence of that mysticism.
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A streak of eastern mysticism runs through Mr Foster's book.
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The action around her is enigmatic and fraught with mysticism.
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So there's this tension of artistry and mysticism with extreme precision.
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We're having another workshop about the mysticism, the religion around drugs.
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This has inspired a tradition of storytelling around its perceived mysticism.
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It's a book for people with a low tolerance for mysticism.
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Any romanticism or mysticism about space was out of the question.
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Spiritually, it was a reinvention of Eastern Orthodox mysticism and iconography.
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Here the storefronts peddle desert mysticism, health food and local art.
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BIG CITY There would be no herbs, or diffusers, or mysticism.
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It draws on fables, myths, even mysticism, to conjure its distinctive moods.
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It was a period of mysticism and spiritual belief that was unconventional.
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Strange remarkably predicted the youth counterculture's fascination with Eastern mysticism and psychedelia.
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Astrology, alchemy, folklore, tarot, and mysticism are all in the mix, too.
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I like to dress with a sense of magic and elemental mysticism.
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In the wake of two catastrophic world wars, mysticism lost its lustre.
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Two engrossing self-portraits in charcoal and crayon capture this newfound mysticism.
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This intimation is newly germane: a vague but feminine mysticism is in.
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Mysticism and hexes and sorcerers are the stuff of daily life here.
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And, why India's science funding features so much mysticism and cow dung.
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Not energy but energy [pronounced chi or ki with emphasis on the mysticism].
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"There's a certain kind of mysticism to the way he conducts," she said.
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The bushland is vast and wild and has an undeniable mysticism to it.
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In recent decades, though, fin-de-siècle mysticism has returned to scholarly vogue.
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The first was "wrapping faith in logic": Marxism fused mysticism with scientific rationalism.
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Buber had written dozens of books about Jewish history, theology, mysticism, and scripture.
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Photo: Rebeckah Campbell Growing up, Victoria Reed was surrounded by mysticism and divination.
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CODECO, however, is long believed to have had a sideline in mysticism and fetishism.
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This seemed like as good a time as any to cash in on mysticism.
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And as with Black Rainbow, the real threat in Mandy is corrupted '60s mysticism.
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"Well, you know, she lives behind a fortress of mysticism," Carlile says of Adele.
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By then he was already meditating, exploring mysticism, and his political views were evolving.
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Combining elements of Christianity, pan-Africanism and mysticism, the movement has no central authority.
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I enjoy the realism he mixes with the surreal Japanese mysticism in his narratives.
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Over the years, mysticism and enigma have become just as fundamental to his identity.
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Specific attributes can vary widely among the accounts, often veering into magic or mysticism.
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It was as if he'd shifted to a different realm, as Jewish mysticism teaches.
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Mysticism is also showing up in other aspects of weddings, such as the entertainment.
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There would be no herbs, or diffusers, or mysticism, or really even opting out.
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Such bloody-minded scenarios tend to wipe away the sensuous mysticism of Wagner's creation.
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It was shrouded, then, in mysticism and green cover, and it still feels that way.
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Scripts draw heavily on Yakut folklore, a tradition rich with fantasy, mysticism and otherworldly realms.
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During this time her work had pronounced ties to the iconography of mysticism and cosmology.
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She explained that the theory behind how crystals work is somewhere between science and mysticism.
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Indulging his penchant for mysticism, Mr. Neumann changed the company's name to the We Company.
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Stonehenge, an ancient site connected with paganism, is a place filled with mysticism and legends.
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I've always been interested in the possibility of a space for feminist mysticism in tech.
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They're seeking peace, history or just a fleeting connection with the mysticism of another time.
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" She opened her first collection, "A Hunger" (1988), with the fanciful, ornately wrapped "Domestic Mysticism.
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How to combine the primal directness of Abstract Expressionism with the diligent mysticism of Hartley?
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But Sufism, often known as Islamic mysticism, has come under violent attack in recent years.
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Yes. But it's a bubble wrapped in techno-mysticism inside a cocoon of libertarian ideology.
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And when realism and mysticism converge in the finale's final 20 minutes, it's absolutely ludicrous.
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Ironically at the time, I was quite cynical about magic and religion and mysticism and spirituality.
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Her photography celebrates the isolated countryside of New Hampshire and captures its mysticism and the timelessness.
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The way we talk about Korean pop stars often elevates them to the realm of mysticism.
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It just sets him on the path that takes him to his eventual mastery of mysticism.
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"The whole thing is steeped in mysticism," says Mark Steber, chief tax officer at Jackson Hewitt.
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It's difficult to explain how she was able to do her thing if you discount mysticism.
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He's Mr. Welsh Ghost, who's into the mysticism of Wales—like coolness beyond life, beyond death.
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Darkspace play ambient black metal inspired by cosmic mysticism and the terrifying majesty of outer space.
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It's an arc of mourning and mysticism, a patient crescendo dissolving into a haunted memory. J.P.
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Got an interesting story about the intersection of technology with magic, mysticism, faith or the occult?
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Of course, in reality the US is just another lumbering statist empire shielded by nationalist mysticism.
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Where Pollan truly shines is in his exploration of the mysticism and spirituality of psychedelic experiences.
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"The Lucky Star" is gilded with the signature Vollmann brew of erudition, irony, mysticism and banality.
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The story has a wide-eyed, mutedly whimsical charm, with a light washing of eco-mysticism.
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Who needs futuristic superpowers when the mysticism of the Middle Ages can be just as cool?
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Some still have a home church elsewhere but come here for a supplemental dose of mysticism.
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It's become really interesting to me that we should break down this mysticism around computers and technology.
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But the man's robe is no costume; we legitimize his mysticism as religion (Leonardo's subject is Jesus).
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Maria's destruction is our newest origin myth, but it provides us with more than folktales or mysticism.
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Believers in mysticism on both sides of the political divide are taking matters into their own hands.
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Elsewhere in his catalog were songs that addressed social issues and delved into mysticism and science fiction.
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She throws herself at mysticism, withdraws from reason, and yet manages, still, to make people love her.
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There seems to be a mysticism around the desert, heat, and space associated with the American Southwest.
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The book hits its high point when he examines the mysticism and spirituality of the psychedelic experience.
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Rivalries between tribes, outlying examples of weird mysticism and secret collaborations with the Army are all explored.
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It's about being a doctor who's starving to death, and it's about mysticism, and tradition, and colonialism.
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Here, she features works by Zavé Martohardjono and Iele Paloumpis, two choreographers who explore mysticism through dance.
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Today, most evolutionary biologists consider Chardin's thought to be little more than mysticism with hardly any scientific foundations.
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In practice, It has nothing to do with Joseph Goebbels, Egyptian mysticism, or the hum of the cosmos.
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Moss teamed up with Ara Vartanian on a limited-edition capsule inspired by old English legends and mysticism.
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Furthermore, recruits and converts were deliberately not exposed to other strains of Islamic thought, from rationalism to mysticism.
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There was a whole season that worked—that found the right balance among absurdity and mysticism and sadness.
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"You want to do it perfectly, so there's maybe a little bit of mysticism about it," he said.
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His practice did not limit itself to the measured confines of dynamic symmetry, or the art of mysticism.
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It seemed unlikely, for instance, that Harar's ambient mysticism would endure once the outside world infiltrated its walls.
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Experienced together, the paintings conjure a vibrant, eclectic mysticism, based in fertile allusions and buoyant color and texture.
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Where Südtirol's mysticism came home to me most was in Alpe di Siusi, Europe's largest high-altitude plateau.
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The program expanded dramatically with the entry of Gottlieb, a chemist with a deep-seated interest in mysticism.
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To its critics, that science is undercut by positive psychology's moralizing, its mysticism, and its money-spinning commercialization.
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Bless the mysticism surrounding New Year's Eve that makes us think that the stroke of midnight resets our lives.
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I always want to find the medium between mysticism and technology, so we played with alchemical ideas as well.
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LaBeija zeros in on the dance's third part, set on a black stage and infused with an otherworldly mysticism.
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Is all the mysticism stuff just that in fancy clothes, dressing up something that's just pretty basic and ugly?
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He spent the early part of his career studying erotic mysticism, which led him to study alien abduction literature.
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Charged with meaning and mysticism, Levant's complex, textured abstractions foil the conventions of both abstract and socially engaged art.
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The surrounding Joshua trees give an air of inexplicable mysticism (and also one or two physical scrapes and scratches).
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Astrology Is Fake but It's Probably Fine From astrology memes to Instagram crystals, mysticism is taking over the internet.
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Here, in a nutshell, is the difference between the mysticism of ancient Greek philosophy and the pragmatism of Roman.
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Although these movements were very different from each other, they rejected anything that smacked of metaphysics, mysticism, and otherworldliness.
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He said Europe had to again "take up the mysticism" of its founding fathers and overcome divisions and borders.
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Choreographer Gillian Walsh takes on dance as a "suicidal tendency" and considers mysticism in a time of global crisis.
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For all the talk of scientific theories and evidence-based analysis, there is a mysticism to the Mandela Effect.
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The old imam, a devotee of Sufi mysticism, has been replaced by a more conservative preacher; the cinema has closed.
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According to Sex and the Supernatural by Benjamin Walker, sex magic and erotic mysticism were practiced earliest in Central Asia.
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He explains the competing tensions within Persian Shiism of temporal and spiritual legitimacy, intertwined with messianic revivalism, mysticism and dissent.
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Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet, spoke of Australia's mysticism being a natural fit for Bowie in The Guardian in 2015.
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Visual artist, Katja Loher, creates video sculptures, which she calls "videobubbles" that play off themes of mysticism and natural beauty.
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They're fables and history lessons brought to the public through the ages with a combination of mysticism and animal personification.
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Aikido is the classic example of mysticism in the martial arts, but the new kid on the block is Systema.
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Members of his brand of Islamic mysticism usually appear in pop culture as entrancing whirling dervishes, or victims of violence.
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He began to read books on philosophy and mysticism, bringing religious curiosity into his music, mixing performance, improvisation and spirituality.
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Falun Gong is a system that combines Buddhism, mysticism, and exercise, but it also touches on aliens and ethnic separation.
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It is a lovely thing, not mysticism so much as an exploration of religious consciousness within the terms of Christianity.
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Adherents of Sufi Islam believe in mysticism and nonviolence, and Sufi saints are credited with spreading Islam throughout South Asia.
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The secret weapon was Madonna, a devout student of kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, and her appearance was shrouded in mystery.
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Other scholars have traced this mishmash of mind cures, millennialism, mesmerism, spiritualism, theosophy and other strains of pseudoscience and mysticism.
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It happens to be true that the phrase "tikkun olam" is a kind of modern neologism, derived from Jewish mysticism.
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For all of his mysticism, he writes at length — and with greatest passion — about the need for organization and discipline.
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The majestic beauty of a harp evokes a visual and sonic mysticism that makes it at once inviting and intimidating.
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Mysticism—which is a word my father held in contempt, basically—and scientific factualism, need for evidence, and so on . . .
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The outfit was beloved by Jews and goyim alike — notably Madonna, circa her studying Kabbalah (that is, Jewish mysticism) phase.
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Ralph W. Hood created the Mysticism Scale in 1975 so that spiritual experiences and encounters could be measured in some way.
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It does seem like you guys have a layer of Watain-esque mysticism going on that maybe adds that second meaning.
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Though there are always people who keep this mysticism alive; we can see this in a lot of New Age movements.
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There is often an element of mysticism, too—a belief in a force called qi that can affect the body's health.
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Despite its origins as a recreational deck of cards in Renaissance-era Italy, tarot has taken on an air of mysticism.
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Rap has a rich history with conspiracy theories, even mysticism, but here he taps into it in a completely different way.
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Science, mysticism, alternate dimensions, secret cities, outer space: the Marvel Universe is getting bigger, weirder, and more fantastic in a hurry.
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There's also a touch of mysticism thrown in for good measure, inspired by Goldberg's time hiking the Inca Trail in Peru.
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These books were part of a Latin American tradition of melding mysticism with political commentary, serious criticism hiding between the lines.
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Its dreamlike nature never dips into hippiedom or mysticism, and offers a prime lesson for young artists: less astrology, more democracy!
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René is an odd narrator, one who tells us several times that he's a skeptic in terms of religion and mysticism.
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Culturally, the cataclysm prompted an increase in mysticism as so much suffering challenged the religious dominance of the Roman Catholic Church.
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My senses were blasted with a kaleidoscope of colorful, curving, intricate forms; evidence of Mackintosh's fascination with nature, symbolism and mysticism.
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But, because of my obsession with politics and rap music, I've also been exposed to copious amounts of New York mysticism.
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The Wagner could have been helped by a greater sense of mysticism: the acoustics cast a clinical light on occasional imperfections.
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Professor Smith confessed to him that he had never had a full-blown mystical experience despite his studies of religious mysticism.
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But it's also the section in which the machinery of Mr. Selznick's storytelling, with its mysticism and coincidences, creaks the loudest.
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Its structure enabled Meltzer to bring together all his interests: sound, metaphysics, Jewish mysticism, nature, humor, music, and much, much more.
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In 1968, he released his popular album Gris-Gris, which earned him national recognition for his voodoo mysticism, funk, psychedelic rock sound.
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We also learn a great deal about what's happening beyond the wall and some of the mysticism surrounding that region of Westeros.
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A lot of these people would go to circles in the Santa Cruz mountains, and read Starhawk, and were interested in mysticism.
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Baloo has created an atmosphere of mysticism and fairy tales in his dwelling on the top floor of old building in St.Petersburg.
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An ethereal stained glass sculpture blends science and mysticism in Amoeba, a new work by Austrian visual trickster and artist Thomas Medicus.
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There's nothing tentative or half-hearted about the album's 20083 tracks, each of which explode with color and emotion, tragedy and mysticism.
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The Take Shelter director is interested in the American South, the inner lives of children, a murky sense of mysticism, Michael Shannon.
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It was born in the nonconformist Valleys, where mysticism, mining and Methodism mingled and produced a distinctively emotional and poetic religious culture.
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The libretto, by Hans Müller, is based on a 1917 play by the Austrian dramatist Hans Kaltneker, who specialized in Expressionist mysticism.
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The Beach Boys (whom Severson had never liked), Gidget and beach parties had been replaced by Jimi Hendrix, Eastern mysticism and drugs.
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Mountains cascade into one another, and rolling clouds create a tumbling mysticism, which I'm sure adds to the culture's reverence for nature.
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I contacted Risa Permandeli, an expert in Indonesian ghosts and mysticism, to ask why these beliefs were still so prevalent in Indonesia.
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Research into psychoanalytic theory and occultist beliefs informs this meditation on how mysticism infuses times of global existential crises — and might, ms.
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Artist and designer Gabriela Ruiz, aka Leather Papi, uses Instagram to synthesize the mysticism, clamor, and hybridization within Los Angeles Latinx communities.
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Mr Acton Smith said Calm had deliberately avoided iconography of flowing orange robes and New Age mysticism, which he calls "woo woo".
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The human is a knot of contradictions and opposing drives: reason and unreason; wisdom and recklessness; faithlessness and mysticism; logic and imagination.
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He preserved traces of religious mysticism in his writing even as he turned into a practical philosopher, social commentator, and cultural journalist.
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Gird your loins, people: Scorpio season is upon us, and with it, a season characterized by passion, mysticism, and major vibe-y energy.
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"Known as the sign of sex, death, and taxes, this water sign believes in mysticism and evolution," astrology expert Lisa Stardust tells Refinery29.
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Noisey: Rites of Passage, rather than focusing on fantasy and mysticism, is more focused on the transformation that comes about through daily experiences.
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"Mysticism doesn't have to be a dark, scary thing," she says, adding that tarot has a reputation for predicting exclusively gloom and doom.
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Future societies will look back on economics as a kind of foolish male mysticism, and Marçal's book anticipates the tone of their laughter.
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It's apparently informed by mysticism and also-ran jam bands, and all the visuals are full of confusing sigils and Earth day imagery.
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But the language of mysticism was seductive; I started to really buy into the idea that these rocks were guiding me to them.
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Fantasy, mysticism, and magic—those are areas where I see the most potential for disrupting the ways bodies have been represented thus far.
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And while mysticism was practiced with all sorts of intentions by both sexes, sexual and romantic rituals performed by women were particularly prevalent.
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He is also a high-ranking rabbi within the Kabbalah Centre, an organization claiming thousands of members founded around tenets of Jewish mysticism.
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The phrase "darkness of unknowing" samples both "Dark Night of the Soul" and "The Cloud of Unknowing," two essential texts of Christian mysticism.
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Both are over-the-top masterpieces that (trigger warning) blend religious provocation, bloody violent images, and heavy mysticism into what Jodorowsky calls psychoshamanism.
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Pangborn, like Strange, has learned the ways of mysticism, and uses magic to make himself walk after being paralyzed in a car accident.
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The Chinese government, which often suppresses spirituality and officially discourages mysticism, supports "yoga with Chinese characteristics" that excludes chanting and meditation from routines.
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Sufism, known as tasawwuf in the Arabic-speaking world, is a form of Islamic mysticism that emphasizes introspection and spiritual closeness with God.
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Years present: 2003 to 2010 In Jupiter-ruled Pisces, Uranus reflects an attraction to mysticism and an interest in the universe's infinite expanse.
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"I watched a lot of Hong Kong ghost movies when I was a kid, so I've always been interested in mysticism," he says.
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Where Morrison applied a Dadaist framing to his idea of the superhero team, Pollack infuses her story arcs with influences from Jewish mysticism.
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He didn't have any need for a creator God, but actually, he isn't so far from certain traditions in mysticism and different religions.
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With this work, Saar began to harmonize her earlier themes of spirituality and mysticism with these newer, more urgent concerns of race and gender.
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Maples has posted on social media about her connection with Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism that's popular with numerous celebs (most notably Madonna).
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Perhaps the idea behind the "mysticism and ritual" section was to give its ambiguous and porous subject, that of the metaphysical, room to swim.
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He later completed the full transition from militancy to mysticism through Sufism, a strand of Islam that emphasizes a direct, personal connection to God.
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The balance between spiritualism and pragmatism comes from embracing the beauty and mysticism in religion while also realizing science and philosophy hold beauty, too.
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They separate it into categories, but maybe what you're saying about the mysticism or the spiritual aspect of what you hear … that is life.
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Artist Sue de Beer's work has strong elements of mysticism and the occult, something she attributes partly to having grown up in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Throw in mysticism, black magic, the occult, astral travel, alternate realities and dimensions, and the study of dreams, and you've got plenty to analyze.
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Steeped in scholarship, yet directed by his own quirky mysticism, Foster brilliantly takes on questions of animal consciousness, cognition, emotion and theory of mind.
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It's no coincidence Oshun is also the referred to as the queen of the witches: She is a teacher of both magic and mysticism.
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Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.
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In Série K (22), Feyzdjou revisits a book she drew earlier in her career, inspired by Sufi mysticism and, conjuring her Jewish roots, Kabbalah.
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Bisttram's "Suspension," a 2235 painting, and "Ascension of the Virgins [B-223]," a 222 drawing, leverage Marsden Hartley's approach to mysticism through religious figures.
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Mysticism and spirituality — think crystals and geodes — are also making their way into wedding cake designs and other aspects of a couple&aposs celebrations.
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Another was the birth of Hasidism, in the eighteenth century, which used a fervent democratic mysticism to wrest authority away from Judaism's learned élite.
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Fanciful mysticism and anchoring reality coexist less comfortably in "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage" than they do in other works by Ms. Ruhl.
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Zardulu's persona is shrouded in mysticism, and she presents herself as equal parts wizard and artist who works in the medium of viral videos.
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Westworld reminds him of Battlestar Galactica and Lost, two shows that also began with promising science fictional premises but ultimately descended into mysticism and absurdity.
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The Cyclades are steeped in mysticism, from the traces of Greek mythology that seep into the culture, to the saturated emerald of the Mediterranean Sea.
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I thought it was really fascinating that European researchers didn't see the same amount or degree of mysticism, by people who are undergoing these experiences.
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She couldn't just plow through the opposition like Luke Cage, nor was she particularly interested in martial arts or mysticism like Daredevil and Iron Fist.
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Many of the artists in this show have updated the original tenets of Non-Objectivism to include their experiences of mysticism, yoga, meditation, and psychedelics.
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"What I found was less a story about death and necrophilia, and much more a story of mad science, delusion, mysticism, and madness," Thomas said.
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At times both his art and poetry could be radically experimental, but both also display a great deal of romantic-inspired mysticism and Christian faith.
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The studio raised eyebrows when they cast "Sherlock's" Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange, a traditionally white character who is seeped in Asian tradition and mysticism.
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Gershom Scholem, the renowned historian and theologian, was instrumental in the formation of twentieth-century Zionism and played a crucial role in revitalizing Jewish mysticism.
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Here, heavies like Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Bhagavan Das, and Ram Das—armed with knowledge gleaned from their gurus—shared Eastern mysticism with rapt Californians.
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But "Black Wave," part fictionalized memoir, part apocalyptic fantasia, blends dark humor with touches of mysticism to suggest how misleading the phrase "settling down" is.
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While the movie's morose mysticism is tolerable enough, once "Clara" starts arguing for following feelings instead of data, it puts on its own tinfoil hat.
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But at least in such "Saturation" paintings, Venet's reductionist ascetic quietism converts to a yes-saying mysticism that plays at the limits of factual clarity.
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"I wanted to live always this intensely: mysticism, alcohol, sexual promise, clever people and drugs," Karim, the hero of "The Buddha of Suburbia," promises himself.
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In 2005, he and his third wife, Jodi Wille, a photographer and documentarian, formed Process Media, which publishes titles about self-reliance, mysticism and music.
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And in a way, they sound like the old world; drawing influences from Hank Williams, themes of religious mysticism and the tiring politics of the South.
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The tone underscores Mandy's symbolic battle between blind mysticism and a self-aware love of the fantastical, while making for a gory, solidly enjoyable midnight movie.
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After diving into atheism (he called himself a "hooraytheist") Holmes found new spiritual life by taking "magic mushrooms," aka psychedelic psilocybin, and studying myths and mysticism.
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Those perspectives contain warring theologies—Satanic insight, Christian, Islamic, and Judaic mysticism, humanistic materialism—plural perspectives that dissolve into the romantic crucible of the American project.
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Grave and self-important humanists—notably the towering historian of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and the earnest literary critic Irving Howe—were offended by Roth's clownishness.
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It takes approximately six seconds into an online search to realize the internet dream realm is as large as it is filled with New Age mysticism.
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The Golden Dome in Los Angeles is a school that enables artists, thinkers, healers, and feelers to learn about the interstices of creativity, mysticism, and ecology.
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French painting of jewels and magic in the style of Moreau, modern Dutch mysticism from the realm of Khnopff, with colonial goods and gods in between.
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The difficulty of the pro-life position, the extremism inherent in any anti-abortion politics, rests not in our mysticism but in our biological-philosophical rigor.
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Gunter, whose practice specializes in pelvic floor disorders and infectious disease, said it's not just that Paltrow is peddling pseudoscientific eastern mysticism—it's actually bad medical advice.
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He seems attracted by things intrusive to the peaceful psyche: the obsessive melancholia of outsiderism, folklorism, Decadentism, Divinationism, ethnologism, nihilism, and mysticism of the elegiac obsessive strain.
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The ugliness of MK-ULTRA's experiments seems to have caused a reaction in Gottlieb himself, who eventually went to India, having embraced various kinds of pantheistic mysticism.
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And CEO Rony Abovitz's gee-whiz mysticism ignores the massive responsibility Magic Leap would have toward users who trust it to record and annotate everything they see.
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The Masons' reputation for mysticism has made them a beacon for conspiracy theorists, ranging from purported links with 9/11 to the Illuminati and New World Order.
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And though Filipino Christianity is almost entirely Catholic, the export variety, adapted to the diaspora's needs, is intensely charismatic, offering a combination of mysticism and practical advice.
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In Doctor Strange, we have a lead character presented with an analogous dilemma: he can learn about magic and mysticism to help himself, or to help others.
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Perhaps it makes sense for a man whose outlook is based on a kind of mysticism to eschew political categories and to be leery of social movements.
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The viewer can see it in the man spouting mysticism while making a Nutella sandwich, and also in lemon pepper chicken with sauce so special it glows.
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Some malarkey does get thrown into the mix: since his aims are frequently carnal, Lee's mysticism can seem, even to him, like misdirection, or perhaps mood music.
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Cramming fantasy and mysticism, faith and history into a single riverboat journey, this dirgelike meditation on China's painful economic rebirth dispenses with narrative in favor of semiotics.
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A meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's "Book of Hours" and the verses of Sufi mysticism, "Night" is an intricate thread of reflections on pain and beauty.
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The trans community deserves platforms and a voice—not just in the tired-ass dialogue of constantly having to defend our existence, but in mysticism and healing.
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Alas, Mr. Glass's new concerto showed this pioneer of Minimalism in automatic-pilot mode, especially the last movement, which strove for haunting mysticism but sounded pretentiously ritualistic.
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She had donned the robes of the circus fortune-teller, an attempt to create an air of mysticism, but which only produced an effect of amateur dramatics.
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Mr. Lee, who was born in South Korea's rural southwest, was ordained in the 1980s by Jesus Korea Holiness Church, which soon expelled him for espousing mysticism.
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A reworking of their 2005 production, they regard it as a search for happiness, in which mysticism and sensuality live alongside moments of improvisation and set material.
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Around 2005, Mr. Taheri, a researcher in alternative medicines, founded a group called Circle of Mysticism, focused on faith-based healings and their understandings of the universe.
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James Poniewozik of The New York Times called it a Holocaust story, a sci-fi story, an espionage thriller and a tale of mysticism rolled into one.
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Despite his crucial role at the intersection of assemblage, collage, mysticism, and poetry, he has not had a proper retrospective almost since his death 40 years ago.
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The centrality of its greatest paradox — that seeming "weakness" can be a form of strength, as evidenced in Wrinkle's climax — is deeply rooted in her Christian mysticism.
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Myst, originally released in 1993, was drizzled with mysticism and mystery; a tale of books and authors who could use those books to entangle and reshape entire realms.
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Former students said the rules when they attended ranged from not talking about anything related to witchcraft or mysticism, including Harry Potter and gnomes, or PG-13 movies.
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In New Delhi, Mukherjee had encountered the Modernist painter Jagdish Swaminathan, whose proclivity for mysticism and the metaphysical counterbalanced the didacticism and pedagogy of her other mentor, Subramanyam.
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Tanguma is an important Denver-based Chicano artist who, throughout his career, has combined symbolism from history and mysticism with the techniques of the 20th-century Mexican muralists.
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Eventually, Strange would leave conventional medicine and his jerk ways behind and become the Sorcerer Supreme, Earth's master of magic and mysticism and one of its greatest champions.
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Even in an era of earnest bohemianism in hip-hop, P.M. Dawn stood out for its hippie-esque mysticism, fantastical imagery, crypto-Christian references and ethereal musical aesthetic.
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Wolfe saw this as a faith-based enterprise, and many of its participants would have agreed; their dominant theology was not atheism but mysticism, in its many forms.
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Ashen takes place in a land full of mysticism, where a person can travel to the gates of the underworld and sacrifice a part of themselves to enter.
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There are still plenty of kids peacocking—just swap out the LA elite and fashionable mass-produced mysticism for Orange County Republicans and cornfed American flag-print garb.
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She was, yes, born with it, but she was also groomed into icon status by the likes of von Sternberg, who nurtured her ever-growing mysticism and allure.
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Comparing the faltering art magic of Rachal Bradley with the herbal medical-mysticism of her sister, I may just have to side with the plants on this one.
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St. Denis, known as Miss Ruth and drawn to the mysticism of Asian culture, sought a spiritual connection in her work; Shawn championed American virility in male dancers.
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And it was hard not to be exhilarated by the meld of landscape and spirituality in the Piedmont, Tuscany and Lazio; mysticism grows well in the southern sun.
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In her new novel, "Weather," Offill applies her instruments — the fragment, the odd fact, her deep banks of knowledge on mysticism and natural history — to a broader canvas.
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The spiritual matter that Carson seeks to address is mysticism, the belief that, through attaining a state of ecstatic consciousness, a person can achieve union with the divine.
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Artist Heidi Wigmore has used the Minefield Control Tower within the Coalhouse Fort to create a site-specific parallel on military and mysticism, with humanity at its core.
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The idea of the mummy also focuses debate around mysticism and science, pitting religious beliefs in the idea of souls and the afterlife against scientific inquiry and exploration.
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"We were so interested in studying mysticism in our patients because most of the fMRI studies cannot really tell you about causality between function and brain activation," Cristofori says.
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The New York-based producer and artist whose work is heavily influenced by his interest in mysticism, shared a music video today from the album's "Life's a Dream" track.
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With that in mind, Doctor Strange is a supernatural fantasy movie (infused with some troubling Eastern mysticism it does its level best to downplay, which we'll get back to).
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You talk a lot about God and make nods to mysticism but are also firmly grounded in both the day to day to day and the larger body politic.
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Like many New Age dabblers in the nineteen-seventies, he was drawn to the Fourth Way—a brand of mysticism established by George Gurdjieff in the early twentieth century.
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At times, the arc of season two leans a little too heavily on the kind of vague mysticism that American storytellers too often ascribe to any predominantly nonwhite nation.
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"Jean Brodie" — based on a work by a writer for whom mysticism always glimmered from the shadows — locates something almost divine, and equally diabolical, in its thwarted protagonist's frustrations.
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He has a brand to build — one that will carry him well past the end of his playing career — and the social media tools to brandish his newfound mysticism.
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Back in the Eros room, "Untitled (rooms)" by Toba Khedoori and "Decoration for Over-Mantel" by Gottardo Piazzoni certainly share some of the mysticism that overflows in Jess's work.
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"A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible," he writes in his review, which is a joy to read.
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Though Geere, 38, is based in Manchester, where his wife and young son live, "You're the Worst" shoots in Los Angeles and he has fallen hard for California mysticism.
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"There is no uniform way of studying Kabbalah in the traditional sense," says Elliot Wolfson, a Professor of Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara focusing on Jewish Mysticism.
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Robed female mystics holding fake crystal balls in photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue ("The Crystal Ball," 22020) and Cindy Sherman ("Untitled #230," 29) are in the "Science and Mysticism" section.
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Alex Aliume took the long way to get here: painful visions, astral projection, mysticism, and an unwavering commitment to deciphering the message he feels he's been sent here to deliver.
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Mr Tal likes the teachings of Buddhism, but the tattoo on his forearm speaks of the Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), and he wears a Star of David on a beaded necklace.
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Well, there's a bit of a craze emerging, brought to us—I'd imagine—by the same people who introduced yoga, meditation, and other New Age mysticism to the Western world.
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In past writing on Balthus, I've insisted on his hebephilia, countering the long and enabling piety of art people who have endorsed his pretensions to aristocratic nobility and spiritual mysticism.
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For the better part of a decade, she immersed herself in every possible subject related to Frank: Poland in the eighteenth century, religion, mysticism, the Jewish enlightenment in Central Europe.
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Like the Kahlo originals, some pieces, including evil eye earrings and hammered gold hands resembling a pair Picasso was said to have given Kahlo, are imbued with touches of mysticism.
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What unites music's negative spaces — whether they are designed for comedy, drama or mysticism — is their power to propel the listener from the role of passive consumer to active participant.
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His resolve is weakened, however, when he is overcome by a desire—not a worldly or a fleshly desire but simply the desire to purchase a book of kabbalistic mysticism.
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A painting of a disk in reds, oranges, and yellows is titled "Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset" (1970)—a whimsy that seems meant to deflect any hint of mysticism.
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The refusal of this work is the refusal to be enticed by that narrative, to be swallowed up by a mysticism doomed to repeat the cycle of sin-wash-rinse-repeat.
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A metaphor for modern machine technology and a historical reference mixed with some good old-fashioned mysticism and stuff blowing up: This, my friends, is the very soul of Star Wars.
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With this simple language, Mondrian aimed to achieve something of a spiritual equilibrium with the arrangement of elements on the canvas, influenced by the mysticism of Theosophy, which pursued universal order.
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Yet the weight of transcendent meaning and mysticism which gets transferred from divinity to companionate marriage here (as everywhere else in our world) seems a cruelly heavy burden upon intimate life.
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This is a very realistic comic, one that doesn't mince mysticism or magic, and it's nice to see an ecological story given so much heft and respect in the comics medium.
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It relates to Jewish mysticism, which teaches that, as a person, you have to be in the valley, but you also have to be the one watching yourself in the valley.
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We always like to touch on some Native American mysticism, without fully diving into it, because none of us are Native American, but it's something we all have respect and interest in.
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As far as Lopez can remember, her life revolved around York, an ex-con who in the 60's founded his own Muslim sect that preached black supremacist ideas and Islamic mysticism.
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Lampert's mysticism, combined with the magnitude of Sears' fall and the finger-pointing that has accompanied it, has set the groundwork for the "verbal abuse" Drain believes Lampert has been subject to.
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But Doctor Strange is rooted in a fuzzier and more mystical universe, inspired by a 1930s radio serial and heavily infused with the trippy, druggy mysticism of his 1960s and 1970s heyday.
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He added that if a Tibetan had been cast, it would result in the stereotypical narrative of a white hero, Dr. Stephen Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, being indoctrinated into Eastern mysticism.
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Even casual science fiction fans will have seen it all before via films like "Star Wars": knights and the need to restore the old order and lots of mysticism about genetic destinies.
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The burgeoning spirit of magic and mysticism responsible for designer tarot decks and the rise of energy field photography emerges at the heart of a group show titled, Season of the Witch.
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Together with Laurel, they are blurring the boundaries between mysticism and technology, creating accessories that manage to feel both "before their time" and relevant to describe our digitally obsessed moment in history.
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Below, we've gathered five unique tarot decks that you can give to loved ones anxious about the future, intrigued by the occult, interested in historical mysticism, or who simply admire beautiful objects.
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There is a kind of mysticism here: we leave the womb, but remain somehow attached; pushing ourselves (and our cities) too hard and insensitively, we reenter a different kind of aquatic fate.
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Huxley's metaphors have influenced all who have followed him; it's hard to find a trip report written after 1955 that is completely innocent of his interpretation, especially its flavor of Eastern mysticism.
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As idiosyncratic as Wilkinson was, the Friend emerged from a long tradition of Christian experiments in mysticism, communal living and occult theories about controlling sexual energy to connect with a bigendered God.
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Episode 403 - "Restoration" Season 4 of Arrow has many masters to serve, between setting up The CW's latest spinoff, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and introducing magic and mysticism to the TV universe.
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Surely the centuries of codified misogyny spread across pagan mysticism, layered over celtic lust can finally be un-peeled and appreciated for what it is: the chance to get your face wet.
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The record boasts '60s, '70s, and '80s influences that combine to create something that can't really be called "rock," and which symbiotically contribute to the camp, androgynous, glamorous mysticism of solo Styles.
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With his food-focused photo series, The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables, Jasik sought to restore a sense of mysticism to familiar items and to introduce his viewers to more obscure ones.
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Cumberbatch stars as Stephen Strange, an arrogant surgeon who draws on powers of mysticism and spirituality when his glamorous life is taken away from him after damaging his hands in a car accident.
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That evocative origin story, which dovetails all too neatly with Zeppelin's penchant for Celtic mysticism and J.R.R. Tolkein-esque landscapes and imagery, has made Bron-Yr-Aur a pilgrimage of sorts for fans.
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The book is an engrossing, true story of discovery, adventure, science, and mysticism, told by a man who was driven to explain something impossible, and is now on a quest to preserve it.
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You have a white guy who goes to Tibet to find esoteric knowledge, and after learning all about mysticism and / or combat from a wise Asian man, is transformed into a great hero.
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In summer 1967, responding to a telepathic vibe of peace, mysticism, beauty, music, drugs, antiwar fervor and sex — a lot of sex — perhaps 75,000 young seekers poured into the streets of San Francisco.
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He discusses matters like the order of sacrifices in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, the doctrinal arguments between different Jewish sects in the Roman Empire, and the varieties of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah.
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This fall, the California African American Museum (CAAM) will debut his first installation project titled Citizen/Ship, which explores the complexity of American culture through the lens of science fiction, utopia, and mysticism.
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The selection of works, intentionally selected by Shani and A---Z, show some shared aspects such as gender fluid identities, mysticism and sexuality, while transcending status quos through verbal, sonic and visual formulations.
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Salafist brigades under Mr. Hifter have demolished shrines and lodges belonging to Sufis, practitioners of a Muslim mysticism that ultraconservatives consider heresy, including another one leveled last month in the city of Surt.
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In the end, I suspect they may prove more interesting as probes of brain function — perhaps illuminating the neural basis of extraordinary mental states, like our experiences of mysticism — than as therapeutic agents.
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" As a deeply spiritual person who took periodic sabbaticals to study Judaism and Buddhism, Sandy was touched by the hints of Christian mysticism that seem to run through "Pigeons on the Grass Alas.
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With his food-focused photo series, The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables, Jasik sought to restore a sense of mysticism to familiar items and to introduce his viewers to more obscure ones.
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Robyn: Yeah, when two boys make music together there is an aura of mysticism around it, like they probably did loads of drugs and got into each other's brains and made something amazing happen.
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The inherent mysticism resides […] in wanting to make something as factual as possible and having it turn out just the other way […] the realization that the simplest and most comfortable of perceptions are shadows.
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Trackless is a confident game that pulls from very real feelings of mysticism, religious pilgrimage, and self discovery to create a quest in which all of the benefits are wholly determined by the player.
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Like, if you're the kind of person partial to believing people can be possessed, I'd suggest one of his gigs as a spiritual experience for you to chronicle on your mysticism Insta account later.
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In the four years since she released her debut LP and moved to Brooklyn, Mackenzie Scott has turned from a raw singer-songwriter into a confounding art rock force, embracing a God-tinged mysticism.
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Mr. Tseden is known for films that strive to depict the reality of modern life for Tibetans and cut through the exoticism and mysticism of many portrayals of the region in China and abroad.
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Across several disciplines, consciously or not, Orientalism creates a canon that presents the West as a tradition that espouses progress, scientific thought, and civility, while the East trafficks in spirituality, mysticism and old traditions.
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She collaborated on books with Gardner, excising unsavory and black magic elements from his writings and Book of Shadows (a witch's personal handbook), knitting piecemeal shards of lore and mysticism into one cohesive whole.
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The minimal, synthetic pulses that underpin her metropolitan mysticism here weren't immediately present on her occasionally hesitant self-titled 2013 debut, and straightforward guitar work still made up the bulk of 2015's Sprinter.
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In many ways, Mr. Py has picked up in French theater where Paul Claudel and Jean Genet left off: His Christian-influenced brand of mysticism divides the world between the saintly and the cynical.
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Hamer's melodic voice hovers between the cold realism of those vicious beatings and an otherworldly mysticism that empowers Ruby to see dead people like Shadow, a young soul who longs to be alive again.
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These girls are their decade personified, multifaceted and difficult, but then so is Garrett, with his troubled past, his acid-fueled musings, his ambient lust — all woven together effortlessly, without excessive mysticism or nostalgia.
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On her shelf are feminist texts, books on mysticism, on every kind of psychology, the history of religion, on physics, and Emma Goldman and Walter Benjamin, self-help books, treatises on alchemy and magic.
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In the end, the piece has a Beuysian kind of mysticism, only the materials gain their resonance through their circulation in our capitalistic age Real Things About Real Things is a show about contemporaneity.
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"A strong belief in mysticism comes from reading and believing Qur'anic passages emphasizing the existence of unseen worlds," says Dr. Muhamad Ali, a religious studies professor at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in Islam.
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Netflix's new teen horror series Chambers is a supernatural mystery set in the Arizona desert, where swelling dust storms and lightning strikes provide the perfect backdrop for the mysticism practiced by many of its residents.
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Bangladesh's shameful response to religion critic killings Assassination of a Muslim cleric Faruqi followed the Sufi interpretation of Islam, a belief steeped in mysticism, which preaches love amongst all and has deep roots in Bangladesh.
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Mandate of Heaven takes a different tack, de-emphasizing the mysticism surrounding the Yellow Turbans and focusing instead on the fact that it was apparently an unprecedented mass uprising across a wide swathe of China.
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As an atheist and general skeptic of mysticism, I was surprised to find that toward the end of my TM session, I'd lulled myself into an altered state of sorts by repeating my mantra ("shirim").
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The text for "Zohar" — a pillar of Jewish mysticism, the composer suggests — is a commentary upon the Five Books of Moses, here presented as six movements reflecting on the nature of man, Judaism and life.
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The horoscopes in every newspaper are a weird hangover from 19th-century mysticism that persist because they're fun, but have absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever (and tabloid astrology is widely discredited by serious astrologers, too).
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A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the track is a can of earworms, one of those musical confections that get into your head whether you like it or not and stay there forever.
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Repudiating both militarism and racist mysticism, it has been built slowly and painstakingly across three generations, in cooperation with other powers (including its old enemies the French), using a mix of democratic and bureaucratic means.
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Formally, they're in keeping with the rest of the show: works of printed and collaged imagery set in window frames; however, the seductive unknowns of mysticism have been replaced with reminders of a brutal reality.
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The latter position is held by certain activists and philosophers, but even the most liberal politician hesitates to defend abortion rights so baldly, which is how you get the mysticism of life's first breath instead.
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But emotionally, at our core, whether we are sitting at the funeral of someone or in an AA meeting or praying for an audition callback, there is a certain mysticism that we as humans embrace.
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He was a voice of logic and reason in an age where science and mysticism tended to blur, solving cases that often seemed supernatural but in fact were nothing but the creations of inventive criminals.
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The woman, who believed in Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, told him she saw and talked to dead people all the time, even threw food to them (a common practice to give the spirits something to eat).
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The OA deals with multicultural mysticism, Russian folklore, and multiple layers of storytelling between the present day, Prairie's time in captivity with Hap (Jason Isaacs), her otherworldly memories of Near Death Experiences, and her childhood trauma.
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It was these same comics that helped inspire students in higher education to take drugs and discuss philosophy, religion, and Eastern mysticism, all in an effort to expand their minds—just like the good doctor himself.
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The outbreak was documented in the British Medical Journal, which describes symptoms such as nausea, depression, agitation, insomnia, a delirium that includes feelings of self-accusation or mysticism, and hallucinations that commonly include animals and fire.
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With a strong and unique body of work in short film behind her, American director Jennifer Reeder's second feature film is the culmination of a lot of her interests: teenage life, mysticism, and small town weirdness.
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Named after the creator and party overlord, Tony Pike, this place is a longstanding relic of classic Ibiza: 72-hour parties, mysticism, free love orgies, gak benders, acid trips, and, notoriously, Freddie Mercury's 41st birthday party.
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Even if "Here and Now" pleasantly surprises me with an explanation for the characters' bond that isn't quite that clunky, it's bound to delve deeper into this politically and spiritually loaded variation on butterfly-effect mysticism.
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There, he studies the way of the hero with the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), a Celtic sorcerer, who in the comics emerged from the Himalayas and the West's long fascination with, and appropriation of, Eastern mysticism.
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" There were other, more abstract lines like, "The mysticism of our past and the possibility for an eternal future give the infinity symbol a sense of awe and wonder," followed by "Infinite Nature of (God)7.
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At best ambiguous and at worst unfathomable, "Mimosas," the sophomore feature from the Spanish director Oliver Laxe, merges harsh reality and offbeat mysticism into a reflection on the tug between our higher powers and baser instincts.
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As a result, there are meditations from various traditions (including Christianity, Islam and types of mysticism) and 55 languages, and 7,000 discussion groups, including some created by and for black women who want to meditate together.
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The police operation marked the beginning of the end for York, a pseudo-religious leader who eluded justice for decades while amassing a nationwide following for his bizarre blend of religion, mysticism and claims about alien life.
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Now, a team of scientists from the University of Washington (UW) have a new lunar attribute to add to the list, albeit one rooted more in empiricism than mysticism: The moon's ability to affect rainfall on Earth.
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Doctor StrangeMarvel's Doctor Strange follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions.
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Channeling thousands of years of Eastern mysticism through an obscure set of underdeveloped superheroes in mass-market comic books, advertised with five minutes of greenscreen time, is a terrible idea—sustainable only by Stirling's own superhuman drive.
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There is nothing to suggest these paintings were inspired by the writings of Sigmund Freud or that they were based on any mental images that occur in dreams, no fantasy worlds, religious mysticism or ambiguous subject matter.
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Monday's showing of the multiplatform "Híbridos, the Spirits of Brazil," an examination of music and mysticism that strives to give a sense of what a trance state is like, will consist of a live performance and presentation.
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J.P. Recording as serpentwithfeet, the songwriter Josiah Wise has forged a private, idiosyncratic mysticism from gospel imagery, personal obsessions, androgynous vocals and productions that turn the studio into church, fun house and asylum at the same time.
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The absence of visual pollution makes the location an unusually pure spot to see the heavens — a treasured site for astronomers and stargazers hunting for undiscovered exoplanets, and a place rich in folklore, rock art and mysticism.
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Sometimes this causes him to slip into what feels like an unearned mysticism, marveling, for instance, at "the strange sorrow that Skype provokes" (by making us feel as if we're in more than one place at once).
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Madonna, who has previously performed in Israel and is a devotee of Jewish mysticism, said on Twitter on Sunday that she was grateful "for the opportunity to spread the message of peace and unity with the world".
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Elsewhere, the simple observational skills of Shaw are a pleasure to behold: inspired by the mysticism of Ovid, where things change into other things, Shaw sets himself a challenge to observe faces and limbs within his natural surroundings.
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" Against this, there is the radical eschatological mysticism of Jesus and, especially, of Paul, who "says that the only thing to expect from this life is to be delivered from it, and to go to where Christ reigns.
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This macho mysticism applies only to some players; where some get to be reckless gunslingers—the hoary cowboy verbiage itself tells you a lot—others must be disciplined and broken down until they're willing to serve a system.
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It's certainly not unusual for children's books to reject cold-blooded empiricism in favor of quasi-mysticism — children's lit tends toward the romantic — but A Wrinkle in Time is very much in favor of rationality and Enlightenment virtues.
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No, whereas Catholic ritual and mysticism provided enduring if somewhat generalized inspiration for the younger Stockhausen, Zimmermann was more traditionally observant — unfashionably so, for a modernist composer — and more traditionally inspired, both on and beneath the musical surface.
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But to truly atone for its evangelical embrace of puritanism and its propagation throughout the Muslim world, it must champion reform and dialogue across the diverse mosaic of tradition, mysticism, and sect that encompass the global Islamic experience.
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To keep up an aesthetic of a divine mysticism, not far from the ancient idea of the divine right of kings, British courtiers have generally exerted power to keep as much mystery around the royals' lives as possible.
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Through it all, Zoboi weaves a fascinating and beautiful thread of spiritual mysticism, centered on Fabiola's commitment to the Haitian Voudu tradition (which Zoboi, in an author's note, likens to the complex pantheon of Greek and Roman mythologies).
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This work, a recreation of a piece originally produced in Nova Scotia in the early 1970s, draws on movements of the era like Land Art and Minimalism, while at the same time recalling an ancient and earth-centered mysticism.
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Since Muhammad's death, there have been innumerable legal debates and countless sects; the flourishing of poetry, music, mysticism, art, and mathematics; and the syncretic blending of the Islamic tradition with civilizations in Turkey, Persia, Spain, the Balkans, and India.
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There was also an element of mysticism involved; we rarely dream of digits but animals, things, people—these things show up, and could be seen by someone straining to see them as such as messages bringing fortune from beyond.
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A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible, with the exception of the prosthetic teeth worn by the lead actor, Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, Queen's lead singer.
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It's what explains why the premier Conservative synagogue in Washington, D.C., sponsors a Jewish Mindfulness Center, which includes meditation practices, healing services, yoga, Jewish mysticism classes and immersion in the mikvah (the ritual bath, previously an exclusively Orthodox practice).
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THE BEAUTIFUL By Renée Ahdieh The 19th-century New Orleans of Ahdieh's ("The Wrath and the Dawn") dramatic new novel is a "last refuge for those who believed in magic and mysticism," a place of dark creatures and intrigue.
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Nineteenth-century groups of intellectuals in both Europe and America, like the German Romantics and the American Transcendentalists (who tended to fetishize "exoticism" and Eastern "mysticism," in contrast to decrepit European "civilization"), developed an interest in all things Indian.
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For those of us who associate ancient Egyptian literature rather immediately with Isis and Osiris, Sunken Cities, with its treasures from a city quite dedicated to the latter's existence, will inspire a sense of mysticism, and still more mystery.
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Rather than wrapping up her work in layers of mysticism, she explains how the camera visualizes the electric currents that naturally surround me, and that her photos are not technically capturing my aura, but simply applying colors to those currents.
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The organization prides itself on unconventional, experimental artists, and their most recent show The Dope Elf delivered: an ongoing theatrical residency that critically (and goofily) examined pop culture's interest in magic and mysticism, which also live streamed on their website.
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His other books include "Boxers and Saints" (2013), a work of historical fiction with dollops of mysticism set during the Boxer Rebellion in China; and "Secret Coders" (2015), illustrated by Mike Holmes, about students solving mysteries at an unsettling school.
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But even more so, Hold the Dark presents Keelut as the kind of place so removed from familiar civilization that literally anything could happen, from fairy tale mysticism causing a child's death to ordinary human beings performing incomprehensible, unnatural acts.
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Along with the brochure, Incunabula listed other colorful books and publications, some seemingly untraceable and odd, other editions of otherwise accessible tracts on science, meditation, Sufi mysticism, and the occult, which seemed to substantiate some of the legend's oddest bits.
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I just know that I'm alive, and I'm aware of my mortality and everyone else's mortality, and I know there's life around me and energy around me, and I don't put that in a category of mysticism or spirituality or anything.
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There's an ancient-world mysticism story without any mention of Hellboy, a 1950s story about wronged Chinese immigrant workers, a coming-of-age snowman story, and a funny little two-page joke comic about a detective ordering Kung Pao chicken.
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For the street application of this, check out the "You've been Tango'd" advertising campaign which was hastily pulled as children deafened each other for life with slaps around the ears in playgrounds across the U.K. Then you get to the mysticism.
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Together with his wife, Rebekah, a devout follower of Kabbalah who is a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow, Neumann cultivated a sort of tech-bro mysticism, combining grueling hours and always-on expectations with a free flow of alcohol and hippie wisdom.
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The Aspan Gallery from Almaty, Kazakhstan, presented a couple of standouts, including video and photography by Almagul Menlibayeva and work by Sergey Maslov (1952–210), an underground but important artist who broke with Soviet Realism to embrace myth and mysticism.
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The story of the hunt for Earth had enough juice to drive much of Battlestar's run, and it combined some of the greatest space battles ever created for television with an eerie mysticism that fueled the show's more serialized plotting.
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It's about a 10-minute stretch of the episode, with no cutting back to other scenes at other locations; and it recalls some of the surreal mysticism of "Twin Peaks," even before Henry gets locked into the van and begins hallucinating.
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Theosophy, the mother of all new age movements, was founded in the 19th century as the discoveries of Charles Darwin undermined faith in Christian creation stories, which led some to abandon religion altogether but others to embrace new forms of mysticism.
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And she has brought a distinctive range of content to the medium, encompassing global culture, popular mysticism, personal history and American racism, which she coolly refers to as "national racism," as if it were a scientific category, or a consumer brand.
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In the soaring surroundings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Medieval Sculpture Hall, the group charted a long history of holiday music, from 12th-century mysticism to early American fugues, with a subtly feminist tinge that emphasized hymns to Jesus' mother.
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Raised in Berlin in the early 1900s, the son of a nominally Jewish father whose bourgeois values he loathed, Scholem became what he called a "religious anarchist" — seeing in Jewish mysticism an answer to the political quandaries of his time.
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There was no mysticism in their argument, nothing spiritual; in fact, it was the opposite, the profound cynicism that we Peruvians carry with us everywhere we go, a presence so constant that we scarcely notice how it colors our reality.
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While the movie has allegorical resonances with the political and human rights disasters of 20th-century Romania, by the end, its surfaces, while remaining superficially unimpressive, open up as the film moves from epistemological speculation onto a plane of mysticism.
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They found that those specifically with damage to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), the region that caps the top of the prefrontal cortex, showed markedly higher mysticism numbers than the healthy controls and even men with lesions in other parts of the brain.
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That the mirror wasn't destroyed wasn't just good luck — on the advice of one of the angels Dee communed with, Dee burned all 28 volumes of his records of communication with mediums, and it's surprising any record of his mysticism exists at all.
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Incorporating ideas from early Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, mesmerism, hypnotism, and nutrition, and drawing on the emerging fields of neurology and psychology, New Thought posited that matter was merely a projection of the mind and could therefore be shaped by the spirit.
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Sure, half of that reason is to get dunked on by people who are cooler than him, but other other half is to use his previously annoying K'un-Lun mysticism to help the characteristically broken, messed up heroes of Marvel's New York.
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Using social media to livestream rituals or to video chat with clients for fortune readings, witch entrepreneurs are better able to grow their business using self-referential devices (clothing, jewelry, idols) to effectively market the storied mysticism of Roma women to searching souls.
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"I was horrified by the ban because it seemed to announce that people would be excluded from Israel because of political views," said Rabbi Arthur Green, a well-known scholar of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew College in Boston, who visits Israel regularly.
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The Bhagwan's teachings have been described as a combination of Eastern mysticism and components from the Western human potential movement, combining meditation with encounter groups and putting no great premium on asceticism; followers supposedly don't eat meat, but do drink and smoke.
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The Chinese wuxia martial arts film — marked by the clang of swordplay and the silent glide of wire-aided leaps — has never had a more influential master than King Hu, who infused the genre with a lyrical sophistication and a meditative mysticism.
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A mid-tempo rock tune well furnished with strumming and chiming guitars, it recalls mid-70s exemplars of Swedish pop, with lyrics that lean into tranquil mysticism: When I dieDon't you cry I'll be flying by you I'll be riding wings of love.
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So I did the first thing that came to mind: I fed it a few sentences from my 43 novel, The Mystics of Mile End, which tells the story of a dysfunctional Jewish family dealing with mysticism, madness, and mathematics in Montreal.
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What sets her apart, however, is her gift for weaving elements of mysticism and sensuality into that essentially intellectual quest, in a manner that has been more expressively refined and emotionally restrained than that of Messiaen, a composer who nonetheless deeply influenced her.
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Language of the Birds: Occult and Art at NYU's 21982WSE Gallery examines the influence of the esoteric on the work of over 60 artists, ranging from the overtly metaphysical paintings of the recently departed Paul Laffoley to the more subdued mysticism of Kiki Smith.
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Doctor Strange is an exposition-heavy movie; most of the second act consists of conversations in which Mordo, the Ancient One, and magical librarian Wong (Benedict Wong) provide jargon-heavy lessons about the various facets of mysticism: the astral plane, the mirror dimension, magic relics.
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One of the show's highlights was a room full of Berman's verifax collages that placed images taken from mass media, pop culture, religion, and science into a grid of hand-held transistor radios, often with allusions to Jewish mysticism, encapsulating Berman's wide-ranging aesthetic vision.
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As Greg Tate told me, ''You have to go to mysticism to explain how these things come together at the same time: the best heroic jazz origin story since the Marsalis brothers, being on Kendrick Lamar's record and Flying Lotus's label, and Black Lives Matter.
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The Epoch Media Group, along with Shen Yun, a dance troupe known for its ubiquitous advertising and unsettling performances, make up the outreach effort of Falun Gong, a relatively new spiritual practice that combines ancient Chinese meditative exercises, mysticism and often ultraconservative cultural worldviews.
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The Bhagwan preached a peculiar mix of teachings that crossed traditions from both East and West, including a focus on mysticism, sexual freedom, the abolition of family and encounter therapy (which encouraged authentic face-to-face dialogues between two people or within a group).
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"Don't do drugs" is the company line Dino-Ray Ramos, The Tracking Board [Marvel] steps into ambitious territory, opening a portal into a whole new world of magic, sorcery, and mysticism that would be elevated to levels of psychedelic proportions with the aid of hallucinogenics.
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While the "Garland Briggs knew everything that was going to happen in the future" mysticism could get tiresome—a sort of deus ex Major-a—the message itself is obscure and straightforward in equal measure, a satisfying balance that promises both solutions and mysteries.
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An essential general reference for the golem-phile is Idel Moshe's 1990 book Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid, published as part of the Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion series by the State University of New York Press in Albany.
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Equal parts West and Kardashian, this was the first time we've been truly invited into the creative process and allowed a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of a Kanye West album, stripped of the mysticism of the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sessions.
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This is where, in the sixties, Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary facilitated sessions of "drug-induced mysticism"; where the psychotherapist Fritz Perls led "Gestalt workshops," often involving crying and primal screams; where Joni Mitchell sang "Get Together" and Ravi Shankar gave George Harrison a sitar lesson.
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"Sean is very interested in elements of sciences and mysticism, and I tend to write from a more human element," Claypool says, citing his history of writing from a blue-collar place, his songs narrating the stories of meth-head tweakers, firemen, and race car drivers.
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With your planetary ruler Mercury in Pisces through April, your partners are going to be communicating with you, but they won't have the words—rather, they will show you how they feel through gestures, and in some special cases of Pisces mysticism, appearing to you in dreams.
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Kabbalah faces allegations of 'fraud' and being a 'cult'The Kabbalah Centre was founded by Philip Berg, the late husband of matriarch Karen Berg, in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of Orthodox Judaism that focused on an ancient book of Jewish mysticism known as the Zohar.
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Mounting a prosthetic eye with a working webcam onto his levitating pyramid, Bell's Ascension channels the mysticism and mystery surrounding the "All-Seeing Eye" on the back of the dollar bill and relates it to modern idolatry and the surveillance state—and looks awesome doing it.
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" And writing in the Catholic journal Commonweal, the critic Colin L. Westerbeck Jr. saw "Close Encounters" as the epitome of New Age mysticism "made out of, and for, our touchy-feely culture — the culture of group therapy and group grope, of EST, TM, and (close) encounter therapy.
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It's hard to say exactly why — some combination of his charisma, the history of Sufi mysticism in the region, and the fact that Salahuddin, not realizing the value of money, was known to dole out 30,000 rupees (more than $200) for a 3-kilometer car ride.
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From her ephemeral installations and performances of the 1980s to the assemblages and clay works that have defined her practice for the last three decades, Beens has consistently explored the intersections of body and memory as they relate to global art histories, mysticism, gender, urbanism, and ecology.
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Saar finds great inspiration in her heritage, embedding tokens of her Black, Irish, and Native American ancestry alongside symbols of astrology and mysticism (the artist's astrological sign, Leo, appears consistently throughout the exhibition), metaphysically juxtaposing the inner and the outer self, the earthly and the celestial.
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The most interesting objects are those that hold logic and mysticism in suspension, as in a series of geometric drawings (282-1971) and undated glass vessels by Ludwig Gosewitz that mirror the graphic sci-fi cover of a 1969 edition of Hesse's The Glass Bead Game.
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This is not to say that the NFL is averse to this sort of macho mysticism—the innate leadership qualities that some Lipitor-pounding grump with a stopwatch can pick up from a firm handshake, the troubling immaturity that those scouts tend to diagnose disproportionately in young black men.
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But this time, the 37-year-old's search for emotional honesty, a way out of depression and darkness, has him channeling mysticism and modernity; he borrows from the Western-born yogi Ram Dass without entirely leaving the confessionals of Marc Maron's WTF podcast that he connected with so strongly.
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Kupka was an artist's artist of strong subjective conviction, grounding his paintings in ideas mined from mysticism, radical politics, philosophy (like Henri Bergson's "flux" concept that imagines that intuition's grasp of the perpetual becoming of time to be the innermost core of meaningful reality), poetry, science, and Asian cultures.
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Born in Colorado Springs in 1901 to the former president's spoiled-rotten, hard-partying, skirt-chasing only son, young Arthur III was raised mainly by his mother, Myra, a California heiress way into the Eastern mysticism that was just starting to make inroads among the American upper class.
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Author Renee Linnell was a surfer and model seeking change in her life when she first encountered the University of Mysticism, a cult that would encourage her to burn all of her worldly possessions and cut off her friends and family—ultimately costing her $500,000 plus years of therapy.
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I found the paintings in Mexique 1900–1950 a bit disappointing at first, until I placed some of them within the larger context of the mysticism of the Mexican Baroque tradition, which spanned from the middle of the 17th century through the late exuberant period of the 1950th century.
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Written in terse but flexible couplets, Terra Lucida takes its title from the "Earth of Light," the spiritual paradise of Iranian mysticism, and encompasses a range of discourses, including personal memories, historical and current events, reworkings of myth and parable, midrashic commentary, ecstatic prophecy, exhortation, hymn, psalm, and prayer.
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