Sentences with phrase «mystical beliefs»

Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah,...

Hitler was brought up a Christian and it is unclear where his beliefs lay as he aged (including mystical beliefs).

Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

Yep, b / c mystical beliefs don't count when you work for Doctors Without Borders.

Likewise, charter schools, even if they are privately run, are not likely to be very good if they continue to receive less funding than traditional public schools; if they are started with sweat equity by people who hold mystical beliefs about organizational performance; and if they are run in an atmosphere of official hostility from the public school establishment.

It is based on what can fairly be called a stock market fetish, a half mystical belief that stocks are the magic asset that will return so much more than other things that you should put nearly all your eggs in that one basket.

Two of the artists, the Swedish Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) and the Swiss Emma Kunz (1892 - 1963), were spiritualists whose abstract drawings look modern but were animated mainly by mystical beliefs.

This Iranian - born English artist, a 1994 Turner Prize nominee, produces paintings that look like exercises in late modernist abstraction but are said to embody Sufi mystical beliefs.

[21] Obeah describes a system of spiritual and mystical beliefs practiced in Jamaica and other black communities of the West Indies.

Dogma and mystical beliefs of some traditions and people aside, Buddhism is more science of the mind and the pursuit of inner peace and ultimate truth than a hard and fast religious path for everyone.

Thus Canadian journalist Pierre Berton argues in his book The Smug Minority that «a mystical belief in the value of work still has a firm hold upon the cultural unconscious of North American society, Work seems to be the one thoroughly acceptable way that a man can demonstrate his worth to himself and his peers.

Religion is the last hope of under educated people to hold on to some mystical belief of a better life after death.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

It is a paradox of logic and mystical belief.

Later she studied Tibetan art and religion, extending the mystical beliefs she had held from an early age (her father, like Mondrian, was a Theosophist).