From Utopistics to Utopystics: Integrative Reflections on Potential Contributions of Mysticism to World-Systems Analyses and Praxes of Historical Alternatives

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From Utopistics to Utopystics: Integrative Reflections on Potential Contributions of Mysticism to World-Systems Analyses and Praxes of Historical Alternatives

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One crowd in religion ponder their way. One crowd in science supposedly stray. I fear the day when someone cries: “The way is neither! O gone astray!” —Omar Khayyam, c. 12th century AD