Like you I have had the religious revelatory experience though perhaps it seemed a little less personal. It was at a similar age but I had read rather more of the Eastern mystical stuff as interpreted for Western audiences (as much written in English is) so to me it seemed less Christian. I had already left my choir singing, church going background behind me so I interpreted it rather differently. To me it seemed like a direct experience of the divine nature of the universe. Of course it could be a purely physiological reaction but to me the key thing it left me with is the opposite of faith - knowledge. The universe is immensely more complex than we understand and a religion is a tiny part of what we understand, almost irrelevent. That experience is what I would like to communicate but there are not the words. Even the memory of the experience is a pale shadow of the experience itself. People in OUSFG are rationalists and the rational explanation is that religion is the invention of primitive societies and the divine revelatory experience is an altered state of mind. Until we can find a way of communicating that experience then I think there is no basis for conversation. Sorry for the rambling nature of this reply. I suppose the problem with having conversations with oneself as many of us do is that you know what you are thinking so you can jump about randomly. When you try to talk to others you need to be more coherent.
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Date: September 18th, 2012 06:27 pm (UTC)From:Sorry for the rambling nature of this reply. I suppose the problem with having conversations with oneself as many of us do is that you know what you are thinking so you can jump about randomly. When you try to talk to others you need to be more coherent.