It wasn’t so much the distinctions made about the types of mystical experience or what he thinks a person should do after having a mystical experience. What stood out to me were the almost universal constants reported by people having had mystical experiences. Supposedly, these include feelings of “love” and a sense of “unity between all things”. Although, it would be rash to alter my convictions based upon this, my biggest criticism of faith is that it has been used to create a profuse number of unique faiths possessing incompatible beliefs. However, if mystics in these faiths had some unifying overlap in their transcendent experiences, it would not only allow me to justify the use of faith, but it might reveal some degree of underlying truth in world religion. Beyond an underlying religious truth, I have found myself intrigued by the concept of pantheism this semester, and have oriented the majority of my personal inquiry the writings of Spinoza, Deleuze, and Watts. For the most part
It wasn’t so much the distinctions made about the types of mystical experience or what he thinks a person should do after having a mystical experience. What stood out to me were the almost universal constants reported by people having had mystical experiences. Supposedly, these include feelings of “love” and a sense of “unity between all things”. Although, it would be rash to alter my convictions based upon this, my biggest criticism of faith is that it has been used to create a profuse number of unique faiths possessing incompatible beliefs. However, if mystics in these faiths had some unifying overlap in their transcendent experiences, it would not only allow me to justify the use of faith, but it might reveal some degree of underlying truth in world religion. Beyond an underlying religious truth, I have found myself intrigued by the concept of pantheism this semester, and have oriented the majority of my personal inquiry the writings of Spinoza, Deleuze, and Watts. For the most part