I think it helps you identify yeah what it is that you're feeling and how to connect it with maybe other kinds of states so yeah we should read the L.F. or discuss the Borges story I don't know what you remember of it but there it was very much like I could relate to it so much so he finds this L.F which is a little small dot in somebody's house that allows you to see all of reality literally all of reality without any confusionbut in this dot and out of spite he tells the guy who who who’s like really he found it in his house and who's like really into like experiencing this and writing this long poem about it out
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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