With his church background, mystical drug hallucinations, and meditation techniques learned from a New Age grandmother, McCann was primed to glean more than superficial fitness.
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Mystical music in the background, together with the heat and the sulfurous vapors, give the bathing experience an almost psychedelic feel.
Just pretend that I've lighted some incense and have some mystical music playing in the background.
Let us call 'hard constructivism' the view that a mystic's specific cultural background massively constructs — determines, shapes, or influences — the nature of mystical experiences (See Hollenback, 1996, Jones, 1909, Introduction, and Katz, 1978 and 1983).
This plausibly restricts the influence of one's cultural background on one's mystical experiences, in turn making possible identical experiences across mystical traditions.
The whole effect is rather mystical and airy, then the siren-like background effects begin to sound like warped wolf howls.
Silverman did not want the risk of sending it to South Korea, as he wanted it to look exactly as he had imagined it, including rendered backgrounds to give a soft mystical feel to the scene.
At the same time, he was attracted by esotericism, alchemy and mystical subjects such as numerology, all of which form background elements in his prose.
