Variety in Mysticism and Parallels with Science<sup>1</sup>

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Description: Abstract The term "mysticism" has a variety of connotations, and these have some interesting parallels with the framework of science. This article explores some of these, not to defend mysticism or to diminish its value, but to show that within the scientific framework there are aspects that resemble the mystical component in the non-religious framework.
V. V. Raman
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