Varieties Of Religious Experience

[nailit]

Have been (re)reading this book by William James. I think that I know the general concensus of ABers re: religious/spiritual experiences but as it seems a human thing to have transcendental experinces just wondered how you all interperate this phenomena?

[mibn2cweus]

I once had in my teens (many moons ago) an experience of feeling very strongly that I was being closely observed and perhaps even manipulated by an unseen presence. I concluded that the most likely explanation for this feeling was that it was simply my own mind messing with me, perhaps a primitive intuition that I was in danger.

In our struggle to grasp the true nature of reality nothing should go unquestioned, least of all the unchallenged inerrant efficacy of our own mind.