There's something there all along that you've become part of. What is that like? Well, so actually the part of it that I'm fixated on is in proportion as the conditions of ordinary consciousness are subtracted. So now seeing becomes more like hearing where it's just kind of all around you. And it's like he says, it breaks the bubble. But as it says, it just immediately comes back to self. We'll drag you back into it.
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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