(April 19, 2013 at 3:06 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:(April 19, 2013 at 2:15 pm)Love Wrote: We postulate that mystical experience does have a material cause, but this does not explain why the experience exists in the first place, hence my reason for attributing it to an external agency.
Again, I say, just because we haven't found the answer YET, why does this necessarily mean there has to be an external agent?
Again, it is all down to subjective interpretation. The way I am describing mystical experience and God is in the form of textual language, and I have absolutely no idea how you are perceiving the words that I write. You are obviously endeavouring to conceptualise my subjective experience, which is obviously very difficult for anybody. This is what I find with rationalism and reason; I very much doubt that there could ever be anything that would ever convince you that God is exists, as I am sure you would apply skeptical analysis such as: is this an hallucination derived from neural biochemistry? Or: how can I be sure it is god? Personally, I am very confident in the reality and truth that God is real, but obviously my confidence is not very helpful to you due to the aforementioned limits of communication.
Also, I think due to the extreme complexity of God, it is impossible for him/her/it to be expressed in a single form that can be perceived as exactly the same by everybody, hence my belief that it has to be realised by transcendening sensory experience.
