All 11 Uses of
mystic
in
Dune
- They bring us the Arrakeen mystical fusion whose profound beauty is typified by the stirring music built on the old forms, but stamped with the new awakening.†
Book 2 *
- Most of them, of course, will have only a semimystical understanding of how we intend to do this.†
Book 2
- =========================== He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.†
Book 3
- The Bene Gesserit, who privately denied they were a religious order, but who operated behind an almost impenetrable screen of ritual mysticism, and whose training, whose symbolism, organization, and internal teaching methods were almost wholly religious; 3.†
Book A2 -
- The first space experiences, poorly communicated and subject to extreme distortion, were a wild inducement to mystical speculation.†
Book A2 -
- Mysticism isn't difficult when you survive each second by surmounting open hostility.†
Book A2 -
- Because the Bene Gesserit operated for centuries behind the blind of a semi-mystic school while carrying on their selective breeding program among humans, we tend to award them with more status than they appear to deserve.†
Book A3 -
- ALAM AL-MITHAL: the mystical world of similitudes where all physical limitations are removed.†
Book Term
- Originally, the "Seven Mystic Questions" beginning: "Who is it that thinks?"†
Book Term
- WEIRDING: idiomatic: that which partakes of the mystical or of witchcraft.†
Book Term
- ZENSUNNI: followers of a schismatic sect that broke away from the teachings of Maometh (the so-called "Third Muhammed") about 1381 B.G. The Zensunni religion is noted chiefly for its emphasis on the mystical and a reversion to "the ways of the fathers."†
Book Term
Definition:
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(mystic) relating to realities that are outside of scientific understanding and normal experience; or one who attempts to tune into such realities