(March 19, 2012 at 9:39 pm)padraic Wrote: OF COURSE the claim that all (or even most) religious experiences are delusions is fatuous nonsense, unsupported by credible evidence.
If you think that god, spirits, ghouls and nasties are probably not real, then it leaves very limited options to what the experiences can be. Suggesting mental delusion certainly is not fatuous.
Quote:However, some experiences can be (and usually are) seen as signs of a severe mental illness,such as schizophrenia. I refer to such things as hearing voices and seeing visions,aka auditory and visual hallucinations..
That covers religious experiences too, how do you separate them then? You can't really, and is it not likely that they are one and the same?
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
