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Who Gets To Claim Objective Reality? An Imaginative Dive Into Cultural Fictions Along the Science-Spirit Divide

The Emerald

CHAPTER

The Importance of Faith in Spiritual Experience

Colbert: Spiritual traditions that exist outside of the Western science spirit split don't talk about faith or belief as if it's a mindset you have to get into in order to convince yourself there's something out there. The consciousness that drives nature is something that can be directly felt, he says. "To try to measure it purely objectively or to say that it doesn't exist because you can't is a ruined experiment from day one"

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