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relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience; or one who attempts to tune into such realities

She is a mystic who believes enlightenment will come from communing with nature.

mystic = someone who attempts to tune into realities beyond scientific understanding

She belongs to a mystic cult.
No mystic ever saw deeper meaning in common things.
Somerset Maugham -- Moon and Sixpence
Once he surrendered reason, he was left at the mercy of ... a body moved by unaccountable instincts and of a soul moved by mystic revelations...
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience

mystic and marvelous surprises
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience

mystical = with a sense of wonder or mystery

'If there is hope,' he had written in the diary, 'it lies in the proles.' The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
George Orwell -- 1984

mystical = relating to beliefs that are beyond scientific understanding

mystics = people with skill relating to reality using supernatural means

mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience

This branch of mystic study is hereby ended.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

mystic = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience

After a long silence, he said: "There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth."
Elie Wiesel -- Night

mystical = relating to realities beyond scientific understanding

White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism.
George Orwell -- 1984

mysticism = belief in realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience

The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in.
George Orwell -- 1984

mystically = in a manner beyond scientific understanding

'The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction.
George Orwell -- 1984

mystical = sense of wonder

The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney-pots into interminable distance.
George Orwell -- 1984

mystical = inspiring a sense of wonder

Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.
George Orwell -- 1984

mystical = belief in realities that are beyond rational understanding

No hint of such speculation appears on the court record, but social disorder in any age breeds such mystical suspicions, and when, as in Salem, wonders are brought forth from below the social surface, it is too much to expect people to hold back very long from laying on the victims with all the force of their frustrations.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

mystical = relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience

And I, mystic that I bad been, I thought: Yes, man is very strong, greater than God.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
Maimonides said it was only at thirty that one had the right to venture into the perilous world of mysticism.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
One evening I told him how unhappy I was because I could not find a master in Sighet to instruct me in the Zohar, the cabalistic book, the secrets of Jewish mysticism.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

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