"I don't mean to sound mystical," Mr. McLoone said, "but strange and wonderful things happen to us all the time.
"Of course, there are a lot of impurities, that's what's misleading.... What I'm saying may sound mystical, but in everybody, Ame, in all of us, there's the desire to find those elements somehow... ...... Technology is wondrous but also multiplies the "impurities".
Oct. 18 at 3 p.m. $12 to $15. "The Led Zeppelin Experience," Hammer of the Gods recreates the sights, sounds and mystical aura of a real Zeppelin concert.
Although this process sounds somewhat mystical, it comes naturally to Falls.
Other buyers can sound almost mystical when they describe the attractions of a lofty apartment.
When he speaks of navigating the vast motorways of California, it can sound almost mystical, like a transitory, numerical incantation.
Mr. Nagel's depiction of a universe "gradually waking up" through the emergence of consciousness can sound oddly mystical — the atheist analytic philosopher's version of "spiritual, not religious".
Set in medieval southern France at the time of the Saracen invasion, "Fervaal" abounds in the lushly chromatic sound and mystical dramatic aura of operas like "Tristan und Isolde" and "Parsifal".
In any case, even Oppenheimer's reference would probably sound like mystical mush to most of today's scientists, who have developed an institutional aversion to theism of any kind.
That is God's way of thanking us for providing so much good food for the geese," he said, in a pronouncement that somehow sounded neither mystical nor evangelical, just likely.
