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As prospective farmers struggled to clear forests for rice fields in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Malaya, their efforts might have been accompanied by mystical incantations like this invocation against Iblis, the Devil in Islamic tradition.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
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Rather like Indian gurus in nineteen-sixties hippie culture, the Jews were assumed to be repositories of every kind of mystical and human elevation.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Although most heartland rockers emerged in the 1970s and flourished in the 1980s, they were deeply influenced by the legacy of the 1960s, inheriting from those years a romantic belief in rock and roll as a force for psychic and social transformation.—
Jack Hamilton,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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That said, a bunch of the new content looks very cool, including a tense survival drama, a Japanese psychic bio-drama, and a new take on Man on Fire.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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The mystic chords that bind us together matter more than any policy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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Operating within those parameters, the mystic outlands trend extends to some of the world’s most mesmerizing corners.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
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The exhibition embraces contradiction, images that are grotesque and sacred, humorous and terrifying, physical and metaphysical.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Glenn Turner Turner is a leftist Oakland activist who retired after running a metaphysical and pagan shop for 30 years.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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The film centers on two fraudulent paranormal investigators who are forced to face real ghosts — and the lies underpinning their business.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Volo Museum is located in the far northwest suburb it is named for, and is well known for reports by guests, employees and the family of owners of paranormal activity on the property.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Spiritualistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritualistic. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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