Word: mysticism
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...From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf; 2000) Alan Moore, who became famous for his sophisticated superhero tales, put all of his considerable comic-writing skill into this re-telling of the Jack the Ripper murders as a mystic ritual covered up by the Queen. The mediocre movie version suffered particularly from its lack of Eddie Campbell's masterful black and white images that perfectly conjure up the fog-shrouded streets of gaslight London. Full Review
...Louis Riel by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly; 2003) Through this interpretive biography of a 19th-century Canadian rabble-rouser and mystic - with every deviance from recorded history carefully detailed in footnotes - Brown explores themes of abuse of authority, madness vs. religious exaltation and the nature of objective truth. That he tells it in the style of big-nosed comic strip characters makes it all the more remarkable. Full Review
Laura Linney currently appears in the British comedy Love Actually and the Clint Eastwood--helmed drama Mystic River...
Many people circumvent the issue of belief by taking Buddhism out of that realm altogether. Sullivan, who was also attracted by the “mystic aspects” of Buddhism, says, “it’s probably taken [me] 13 years just to see that it’s a religion.” Counter-intuitive as that may sound, it is actually a pretty common sentiment among many who come to Buddhism in adulthood. The most popular way of expressing it is to say, as Henry W. Mak ’06 says...
...early to be lost while driving the streets of Chelsea. Keep in mind, this was not fashionable Chelsea in Manhattan with its brasseries and trendy art galleries, but Chelsea, Mass.—a bleak section of Boston, just north of Logan Airport, facing Somerville across the Mystic River...