Some mystics find the spiritual to be immanent within the world of ordinary sense perception, but others discount the perceptible world as illusion and attribute reality to the spiritual alone.
The perceptible ones were objects of perception, which was capable of attaining truth about them but nothing that counted as knowledge; they were within the heavens.
Unlike the Hindu traditions, the Daoist mysticism of China locates the unitive in the perceptible world.
The atoms collide and agglomerate, resulting in events in the perceptible world.
Or will new directors with more diverse backgrounds continue the perceptible improvement in corporate board decision-making and add value?
A number of developments help to explain the shifting emphasis: the perceptible easing of relations with the Communist bloc; there are no immediate threats to the peace.
"We're going to send thousands of families on trails to experience nature, while they will have the perceptible sound of gunfire in the background?" Ms. Shore said.
Whatever the precise detail of the relation of the extrasensory to the perceptible, the hiddenness of the spiritual is an important characteristic of mysticism.
For Plato the organization and laws of the republic have to be inscribed in the perceptible world, however difficult this may be.
Shamans and other mystics embrace pantheons that define the scope of the spiritual, partly by deduction from the perceptible world and partly through mythology.
By contrast, for Plato what has no place is the perceptible society of the here and now, in perpetual change, subject to all sorts of evils and incapable of taking human beings to where their true essence leads them.
