There is a kind of lightness and joyousness that you get with this in contrast to the feelings of being like smacked down with this overwhelmed by it there all. In some of these descriptions I feel like anxiety and dread are the opposite of the emotions that that are being reported anything else you want to talk about about the states themselves before we maybe conclude with a discussion of the epistemology? "I love that it's very well described and I think it's like like it gets at something to you know like the negation is a big part of what it is that you're trying to do but it is on behalf of a deeper yes yeah"
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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