The thought that you could get to God, just you, through prayer and worship was already a heresy. So the thought that you might be able to achieve insight or oneness with God independent of any of this stuff is even more dangerous. Do you think Jeffrey Epstein is still alive? I don't. But you know, somebody's got to be driving those black cars in your neighborhood. That's even creepier.
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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