RE: Have you had experiences you'd describe as sacred, mystical and/or religious?
August 21, 2014 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2014 at 10:43 am by Diablo.)
(August 20, 2014 at 7:03 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(August 20, 2014 at 3:25 pm)Diablo Wrote: ...Does the lack of logic bother you at all?Does the experience of pain need to be logical in order to prove to you that it is real? Likewise, mystical experience (in my own case) is direct and unmediated.
Pain is logical, in that it be explained by having nerves etc. Because your experience is direct and unmediated doesn't mean that it's real. It's well known that hunger, thirst and loneliness (wandering in the desert, for example) can produce hallucinations, as can other things.
(August 21, 2014 at 10:35 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(August 21, 2014 at 5:18 am)Confused Ape Wrote: There's no proof that God exists but we know the universe does.By definition, the universe is the sum total of everything, or All. The physical universe appears to be a contingent feature within this Totality. From Parmenides through Aquinas and Swedenborg, this Totality, has been regarded as the "One" from which all things come. Looking at the physical universe and applying reason to experience, I do not see how someone who is sufficiently educated can fail to recognize the 'god of the philosophers'.
That's a bit weird. How do we jump from the universe to god? And really, your comment about 'someone who is sufficiently educated' is unnecessary.