(September 1, 2021 at 1:16 pm)Jehanne Wrote: If medication would stop someone's visionary experiences, would someone like William James still say that those visions were authentic? I suppose that he would, as he appears to have advocated belief in belief. Or, as Dwight Eisenhower once quipped that it didn't matter to him what religion people had, as long as they had one.
Not sure what William James would say. I think people who are prone to interpret uncommon experiences as religious ones would do so regardless. Jesus toast and so on.
