"I just want you to admit that yours is a battle to since you obviously worship at the fountain of reason or else we wouldn't have these kinds of conversations," he says. "It's so funny that like it really is temperamental at this point between the two of us because I like it often happens and then I just see that you see that." He adds, "I'm always deeply suspicious about insight that comes from somebody's idiosyncratic experience"
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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