Spiritual experiences?

[Angrboda]

Spiritual experiences exist. It's the interpretation of what those experiences mean and the tendency to import a form of realism onto them which is questionable.


There's plenty of evidence from psychology that people have experiential states they label spiritual. Whether that indicates the existence of the spiritual is another matter.

(I'm reminded of Ramachandran's oft misreported "God center," the God helmet [of which there is some controversy], and the hyperreliosity of some epileptic seizures; these experiences certainly exist. Whether they mean anything, aside from what they can tell us about the human brain, is the question.)