John Boorman, in his film Excalibur, attempted to restore a more traditional heroic representation of an Arthurian tale, in which the Grail is revealed as a mystical means to revitalise Arthur and the barren land to which his depressive sickness is connected.

Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed that, while being imprisoned in the Siyah-Chal in Iran, he underwent a series of mystical experiences including having a vision of the Maid of Heaven who told him of his divine mission, and the promise of divine assistance ; In Bahá ' í belief, the Maid of Heaven is a representation of the divine.

The device uses moveable stones on crossing wires as a representation of the physical world ; its use as a fortune-telling device, computer, toy, or mystical implement is vague.

Another trend Bauer has denounced is the representation of the Holocaust as a mystical experience outside the normal range of human understanding.

One of the stronger influences is her love of the mystical and mysterious.

Among the prevailing types of theories that attempt to account for the existence of love there are: psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider love to be very healthy behavior ; there are evolutionary theories which hold that love is part of the process of natural selection ; there are spiritual theories which may, for instance consider love to be a gift from God ; there are also theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

His other early poems, which are meditations on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects, include Poems ( 1895 ), The Secret Rose ( 1897 ), and The Wind Among the Reeds ( 1899 ).

Traditional Sufism is a branch of Islam that provides a more personal and mystical connection to its enlightenment, or “ divine love .” It originated in the Middle East and North East Africa as a sect of Islam that internalized Islamic beliefs.

Santino described one method of changing Christian lyrics as a process that transformed “ lyrics that sang of the mystical love of God into lyrics that celebrated the earthly love of woman ”.

This view of suffering as stemming from Divine love, is articulated in different language by the different levels of traditional Jewish thought, from the " Revealed " dimensions of Torah, to its mystical " Hidden " dimensions.

* Another, connected idea from Kabbalah, provides further support for its positive view of reincarnation, as well as a further demonstration of the mystical scheme of finding the inner Divine love, within apparently negative phenomena.

The roots of this view lie in the Hasidic, mystical love of every Jew, even potentially unworthy people.

For example, John Lodge had gone from writing powerfully reflective mystical or humanitarian themed pieces such as " House of Four Doors ", " Candle of Life " and " One More Time To Live " to quirkier items such as " Here Comes The Weekend ", " Rock and Roll Over You " and " Love is On The Run ( From Me )", while Hayward's songs seemed less the deeper drama of numbers such as " The Actor ", " Dawning is the Day ", " You Can Never Go Home ", " The Land of Make Believe ", etc., to pleasant ( and more radio-friendly ) perennial far simpler songs about lost love and romance (" Your Wildest Dreams ", " No More Lies ", " I Know You're Out There Somewhere " etc .).

During his 1904 retreat from Tibet, Younghusband had a mystical experience which suffused him with " love for the whole world " and convinced him that " men at heart are divine.

Because homosexuality was a mortal sin and vehemently scorned at that time, rumours about the king's alleged love relationship with Algotsson, and other erotic escapades, were spread by his enemies, particularly by some noblemen who referred to mystical visions of St. Bridget ( Birgitta ).

), and an equally rich group of themes typical of lyrical poetry of erotic inspiration adopted by mystical literature ( the torment of love, impossible union, beauty of the loved one, stereotypes of the love story as weakness, crying, separation ).

This awarenes of the loving Divine purpose and significance of each individual, awakens mystical love and awe of God.

The Sama represents a mystical journey of man's spiritual ascent through mind and love to perfection.

He appears in numerous Angel novels as a member of Angel Investigations, but has a more prominent role in some ; in Stranger to the Sun he falls under a mystical slumber after receiving a mysterious package in the mail and becomes trapped in a nightmare, while Book of the Dead sees his love of reading get the better of him after being sucked into a book about the occult.

It describes how contemplating the mystical greatness of the Creator and the union that a Jew has with Him through the Torah's commandments, can achieve the love and fear of God necessary for sincere worship.

Czartak's program may be described as a mystical naiveté that joined a love of nature with a disgust for modern civilization.

The HU has been used in the Sufi and other mystical traditions, and is viewed in Eckankar as a " love song to God ".

The idea of magic in Mage is broadly inclusive of diverse ideas about mystical practices as well as other belief systems, such as science and religion, so that most mages do not resemble typical fantasy wizards.

The event affected him profoundly ; he experienced visions and mystical feelings so powerful that he gave up his normal activities.

Throughout history, people have claimed to see visions of God or have claimed to go into mystical ecstacies and so forth by which they procured some understanding of God.

She wrote, " The book is bombastic, baroque and like so much else about Carl Jung, a willful oddity, synched with an antediluvian and mystical reality.

Some authorities regard him as a contemporary of Abraham, and some Jewish traditions go so far as to claim that Abraham acquired a portion of his mystical knowledge from Hermes himself ( Kybalion ).

An example is " The Mad Trist " in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story-within-a-story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in " the Mad Trist " begins happening in " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

Hiranyakashipu eventually becomes so angry and upset at his son's devotion to Vishnu ( whom he sees as his mortal enemy ) that he decides he must kill him, but each time he attempts to kill the boy, Prahlada is protected by Vishnu's mystical power.

Hiranyakashipu eventually becomes so angry and upset at his son's devotion to Vishnu ( who he sees as his mortal enemy ) that he decides he must kill him but each time he to attempts to kill the boy, Prahlada is protected by Vishnu's mystical power.

As Spiritualism led to stage magic and escapology, so ventriloquism became more of a performance art as, starting around the 19th century, it shed its mystical trappings.

" Such a penetrating -- and Zen -- mystical view, arrived at so long ago, will be hard to top ; in my own experiences with psychedelic drugs I have had precious tiny illumination compared with Erigena.

Second, by being reduced to his bones, the shaman experiences rebirth on a more symbolic level: in many hunting and herding societies, the bone represents the source of life, so reduction to a skeleton " is equivalent to re-entering the womb of this primordial life, that is, to a complete renewal, a mystical rebirth ".

As the series went on, the significance of Dawn's arrival is revealed to the series ' other characters and they come to understand that she has not always been Buffy's sister, or indeed a sentient being ; Dawn had originally been the mystical ' key ' to unlocking dimensions, and was made into Buffy's sister so the Slayer would protect her.

Brouwer then " embarked on a self-righteous campaign to reconstruct mathematical practice from the ground up so as to satisfy his philosophical convictions "; indeed his thesis advisor refused to accept his Chapter II " ' as it stands, ... all interwoven with some kind of pessimism and mystical attitude to life which is not mathematics, nor has anything to do with the foundations of mathematics ' " ( Davis, p. 94 quoting van Stigt, p. 41 ).

Old Bull thought his orgone accumulator would be improved if the wood he used was as organic as possible, so he tied bushy bayou leaves and twigs to his mystical outhouse.

Hafez often took advantage of the aforementioned lack of distinction between lyrical, mystical and panegyric writing by using highly intellectualized, elaborate metaphors and images so as to suggest multiple possible meanings.

Sometime between this incident and the events of Hush, the Riddler was hired to steal artifacts imbued with mystical powers from one of Star City's museums, and then distract the authorities so that the related rituals could be commenced.

Known features of the Mangekyō Sharingan are, the ability to generate a black flame so hot that it can burn anything in its line of sight, including other flames and it will not stop burning until its target is incinerated or in Sasuke's case if the user calls it off ;, a genjutsu that traps the opponent in a realm controlled by the user, during where days of subjective time can pass instantly, and as such allows no time for the target to break free of the jutsu ; and, a summoned mystical being made of chakra which is able to protect and attack for the user.

However, her empathic powers also used to make her sensitive to surrounding moods, making her change appearance depending on themselves, their needs, or perceptions, and make her vulnerable to certain telepathic manipulation ; or rather do so when she herself was either in a vulnerable emotional state, was distracted, focused on the person in question or her powers were in a minor flux from lack of mystical sustenance.

Food and wine are inseparable from Spanish culture, historically bound to the social, economic, literary and even mystical fabric of society over thousands of years, so it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to regulate and normalize activities related to them have proven highly elusive.

For Crowley, it was the job of the adept to identify with the appropriate symbol so to experience the mystical conjunction of opposites, which leads to attainment.

His lyrics have been described as intensely personal and mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos, and his songwriting and singing have been compared ( usually favourably ) to Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, referred by Ka-Spel, as being more a folk coincidence, not a direct influence ... Ka-Spel have mentioned so diverse influences and musical references as: Xenakis, Beatles, Otomo Yoshihide, Radiohead, Nurse With Wound, ( early ) David Bowie, Brainticket, Can, ( early ) The Residents, Magma, Ilicht, Es, Throbbing Gristle, etc.

He is imprisoned by a mystical force, unable to leave his underground lair, so he bids his minions to find people for him to feed from.

The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.

Unfortunately for Deadpool this involves finding T-Ray's body, so he and Bob sent to fight their way through various mystical realms by Dr.