
Episode 258: Mystic Peeza
Very Bad Wizards
The State of Mind of the Mystical Experience
I think maybe we should say from the get-go that James really is interested in the state of mind of the mystical experience. Like he's very much approaching this as a psychologist. So he cares about like what's going on when these people are actually experiencing this. But yeah, he is just describing the experience of these people in a purely descriptive way. It is at the beginning, not in any way trying to judge whether these are true insights into a deeper reality or just mass hallucinations.
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