Mystical Phenomena Quotes

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.