Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EASTERN EUROPE. While Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia strive more or less successfully to replace communism with Western-style democracy, in other former Soviet satellites the alternative to red rule seems to be a mystic nationalism based on blood and soil. That holds particularly true for the main antagonists in the Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman...
Rock's surreptitious narrative poet and mystic folklorist takes a funky journey to the end of the night in a rich collection of reflective love songs and groove-heavy tall tales. Music full of hellhounds and enigmatic angels of mercy...
Rock's surreptitious narrative poet and mystic folklorist takes a funky journey to the end of the night in a rich collection of reflective love songs and groove-heavy tall tales. Music full of hellhounds and enigmatic angels of mercy...
...subjective and objective flow into one another until the + distinction between the two is meaningless, just as the distinction between God and human vanishes. Reason has its mechanical uses in an ordinary world but is counterproductive in the higher realms that miracles inhabit. So says the believer's mystic line...
...BOOKS Mystic Chords of Memory: how myth is confused with history...