Definition of "mysticism" []

• Immediate consciousness of the transcendent or ultimate reality or God. (noun)
• The experience of such communion as described by mystics. (noun)
• A belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that are central to being and directly accessible by subjective experience. (noun)
• Vague, groundless speculation. (noun)

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• "It's the use of what I call mysticism in his rhetoric: he's the candidate of "change"."
• "This mysticism is the inner thing which gives the spark of imagination."
• "When anyone shrouds things in mysticism and lies it is not hard to know what kind of person they are overall."