(March 3, 2017 at 3:20 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Seems odd to cite a few generalizations about things as you find them in order to justify a finding that there is something non-detectable and ineffable 'behind a veil' which is the cause and explanation of everything we see. That really does require a lot faith and/or confirmation-bias IMO.
Perhaps you and many of your fellow atheists have not experienced these things as I have. It is a type of gnosis that has a certainty about it that goes beyond ordinary experience. Everyday reality seems rather pale by comparison. YMMV. Even if you never had such personal experience, highly specific disciplines like yoga meditation and contemplative prayer have consistently produced these kinds of experiences that are consistent across cultures. A skeptic can always dismiss these as self-inflicted delusions. Perhaps. But skeptics can find reasons to doubt pretty much anything including their our consciousness.
