A mystic in a crowd of sceptics

In this day and age, it's easier to imagine a mystic in a crowd of sceptics than the other way around.

There's always at least one in every crowd. They don't usually get noticed right away, but they eventually do.

Peter Abelard was a mystic in a crowd of sceptics, or a sceptic in a crowd of mystics. He wasn't taken seriously during his lifetime, but the f…