Episode 258: Mystic Peeza
Very Bad Wizards
The Importance of Mystical Experience
William James is not a floodlight kind of thing. Like he's citing a whole bunch of people. He's like somehow doing both at the same time, which is, I think, the very impressive thing. So shall we dive into what he actually says? The handiest of the marks by which I classify a state of mind as mystical is negative. It defies expression that no adequate report of its content can be given in words. In this peculiarity, mystical states are more like states of feeling than like states of intellect.
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