(October 25, 2014 at 1:13 pm)bearheart Wrote:(October 23, 2014 at 7:56 pm)psychoslice Wrote: The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
( Albert Einstein - The Merging of Spirit and Science)
The quote is humble enough to acknowledge not knowing everything, unlike the frequent mystical claims to have discovered truth and everything through "an experience". As I said before an experience is very qualitative, subjective and truth cannot be deduced from experience alone.
We need to expand what "religion" stands for, this word should grow out of its metaphysical and supernatural origins, and should represent the way an individual looks at and behaves in his environment.
Of course truth cannot be deduced from experience alone, the experience of truth is secondary to that which was experienced, we can never know of truth as a mind body organism. We as an organism can only know what we know through our senses, as all other organisms do. The world is much different to other organisms, they can only know what they know through their senses just like us.
So what is truth ?, and who's truth is truth ?.
