Jean Houston

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

American Author

Jim Morrison

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

American Singer

Olly Alexander

When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.

English Musician

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

American Scientist

Janet Suzman

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

South African Actress

Jean-Marc Vallee

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Canadian Director

Junius

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Author

Edward de Bono

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

English Psychologist

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Australian Writer

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

German Philosopher

Use 'mystical' to describe things that are hard to grasp with logic, such as supernatural events or feelings.

Beyond Understanding

'Mystical' isn't only for religious contexts; it can describe anything that seems beyond normal experience.

Not Just Religion

'Mystical' often reflects a personal and subjective experience that others may not feel or understand.

Personal Feelings

Use 'mystical' when you want to express that something fills you with wonder, like a breathtaking landscape.

Sense of Awe

'Mystical' can indicate a deep cultural or historical significance that inspires awe or respect.

Cultural Resonance

Items or places described as 'mystical' may be thought to have magical qualities or connections.

Magical Association

'Mystical' refers to a deeply personal spiritual experience, often one that is hard to put into words.

Spiritual Connection

Although often spiritual, 'mystical' can describe any profound personal insight or truth.

Not Always Religious

'Mystical' can refer to the journey or practices leading towards inner wisdom or enlightenment.

Path to Enlightenment

 and we had this big idea, and the big idea was, let's put the individual human being at the center of the universe above all gods and mysteries, and there's no more room for mystical creatures who take dictation from the divine. And it's the beginning of rational humanism, and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual.

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 an amazing book it talks about the mystical undertones of technology and our desires for total interconnection and total awareness and it looks at sort of the psychedelic influences behind technology you know the the psychedelic vision of total connectivity has been literalized by the internet you know

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 And one thing to notice is that perhaps there are states of human well-being that we rarely access, that few people access. And these await our discovery. Perhaps some of these states can be appropriately called mystical or spiritual. Perhaps there are other states that we can't access

Science can answer moral...

 psychedelic research flourished all over the world and showed great promise for the fields of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy, neuroscience and the study of mystical experiences. But psychedelics leaked out of the research settings and began to be used by the counterculture,

The future of...

 that perhaps there are states of human well-being that we rarely access that few people access and these await our discovery perhaps some of these states can be appropriately called mystical or spiritual perhaps our other states that we can't access because of how our minds

 and you're somewhere completely unique and different and I think that's probably part of the adventure such huge heritage culture you know it's mystical its nature its everything and it's one of the most beautiful places in the world you can't find this anywhere else

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 they see the footprints of snow leopards they hear the calls in the mating season they see animals killed by snow leopards but they've never seen a snorla in their life and that's what gives them this uh mythical mystical characteristic yeah so there

Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...

 Take a look at this image. What might this be? A frightening monster? Two friendly bears? Or something else entirely? For nearly a century, ten inkblots like these have been used as what seems like an almost mystical personality test.

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 need to be accompanied by a mystical feeling? Science and just observation gives us that feeling without it, so I don't feel the need. The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure.

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 But more importantly, for me to begin to understand who are the couples who have an erotic spark, what sustains desire, I had to go back to the original definition of eroticism, the mystical definition,