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| | New age / mystical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Mysticism from the Greek μυω (muo, "concealed") is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an important source of knowledge or understanding. |
 | | Mystics generally hold that there is a deeper, more fundamental state of existence hidden beneath the appearances of day–to–day living (which may become, to the mystic, superficial or epiphenomenal). |
 | | Mysticism is experiential and holisitc, and mystical experiences are generally held to be beyond expression; modern philosphy is analytical, verbal, and reductionist. |
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