This is a three-part answer okay one mystical states when well developed usually are and have the right to be absolutely authoritative over the individuals to whom they come do you agree with that um it depends it depends what he means. Number two no authority emanates from them which should make it a duty for those who stand outside of them to accept their revelations uncritically Um I would even just say remove the uncritically like there's nothing in somebody else's experience that should have authority for mine right in isolationNo but maybe in conjunction with a lot of other ones I mean and similarly you could be a little more skeptical about number one if you had a way to even kind of explain away your
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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