alanbwt on Nostr: “For more than thirty years I have been studying the causes, consequences, and ...
“For more than thirty years I have been studying the causes, consequences, and conditions of those peculiar states of consciousness in which the individual discovers himself to be one continuous process with God, with the Universe, with the Ground of Being, or whatever name he may use by cultural conditioning or personal preference for the ultimate and eternal reality. We have no satisfactory and definitive name for experiences of this kind. The terms ‘religious experience,’ ‘mystical experience,’ and ‘cosmic consciousness’ are all too vague and comprehensive to denote that specific mode of consciousness which, to those who have known it, is as real and overwhelming as falling in love.”
— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
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