Re: Are You into Time?
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So you think that those who have "stepped inside" are privvy to an understanding the rest of us aren't?
When I used to drop acid, I thought I was privvy to a whole other reality that was beyond most people's understanding too. The point is, there are all kinds of ways to "feel" an inner understanding. Whatever floats your boat. It doesn't mean you're any closer to the actual answer though. Logic simply is the realization of this fact.
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The thing with acid induced revelations is that they usually evaporate when you come down. Spiritual experience is an ongoing part of life. It has staying power.
You keep thinking in terms of "knowledge" and talk about being "privy" to it. It's not like that. You can't just dismiss the experience by calling it a "feeling". Something Real is happening. There are just limitations to language for describing it.
I think we are starting to repeat ourselves. Maybe we should give it a rest.
PairTheBoard
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I can stop after this one last question...
What makes you so sure these "feelings" are real and not just the product or by-product of chemical reactions taking place within the brain? This is what I mean. If you feel something spiritual and feel it's powerful, you assume that it's real, when it may be nothing more than the way your brain is interpreting it's surrounding. Sensory perception may in fact be quite unique.
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Again you translate "spiritual experience" to "feelings". And now further to "by-products of chemical reactions in the brain". How do you know you would be so quick to put "spiritual experience" into those terms once you actually had such an experience? You are trying to tell people what their spiritual experiences are when you don't even know what it is to have one. Maybe instead of trying to tell them about something you haven't experienced you might consider what they tell you about what they have. Listen to the language they use rather than the language you apriori want to impose on them. That's the language they find most suited to Their Experience.
When you walk into a class on Galois Theory do you insist the class be taught using only the terms of differential calculus?
PairTheBoard
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