DIVINATION: Last year, Kelly Palmatier, a local psychic-medium, launched the Asheville Psychic Society, a networking group for spirit workers. She and other local mystics who spoke with Xpress note ...

From Mysticism, which was published last month by New York Review Books. “Mysticism” is the word for what we modern, critical philosophers are meant to distrust in the name of enlightenment. It is all ...

When we think of having an "out-of-body" experience, we might think of near-death encounters or occurrences that are so surreal, they seem to take you out of your current reality. But the mystical ...

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More people now report that they have had mystical experiences than did 40 years ago. So why are Luke Timothy Johnson and The New York Times's Ross Douthat concerned that the mystical, ascetic aspects ...