The universe wasn't designed with concepts in mind so I'm okay with the thought that like what concepts are doing for us is allowing our minds to wrap around reality in a way that's kind of useful. The only further step on your path towards mysticism which I do think there's like a little Christian mystic just waiting to break out in in your breast it's that the concepts are useful but then they also might close us off at times to a more holistic understanding that would actually also perhaps be more accurate.
David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What defines a mystical experience? Why do they defy expression and yet feel like a state of knowledge, a glimpse into the window of some undiscovered aspect of reality? Is Tamler right that David has a little mystic inside of him just waiting to burst forth from his breast?
Plus – another edition of VBW does conceptual analysis and we’re sticking with ‘c’ words – this time the definitive theory of ‘creepy.’
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