(August 12, 2011 at 3:53 pm)CoxRox Wrote: These experiences have the SAME physical manifestations. I' ve proposed no hidden mechanisms. I' ve explained a set of experiences that were very real to me, and on investigation have been very real to people of differing religious backgrounds.
No one is claiming it wasn't very real to you, but to reiterate the overall theme of the responses to you, you are deeming this to have been an external force when there are much better reasons to believe it to have been internal.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell