The oncoming of mystical states may be facilitated by preliminary voluntary operations like doing shrooms. One of the sure ways to bring on these kinds of experiences is to stop trying because it's not something that you can do. And in fact, effort is in the way. But I will say that it's just inevitable that I'm going to talk about meditation stuff a little bit through this.
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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