root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) (04/10/85)
> I know that something is happening. Me too.. but what? > If what I have is an extreme case of self-hypnosis based on wishful > thinking I am sure that I will discover this through inconsistencies > over the next decade or so. Right. It's easy to say "self-hypnosis" but much more difficult to substantiate. It's the INTERRPRETATION of religious experience where people infuse their own corrupt wishfull thinking onto the "truth." Given an experience, different people will form different conclusions. Some will look at the experience with a sincere eye towards knowing the truth. Others will form an interpretation based on what they want to believe. That's dangerous. The fundementalist will fall on his knees and scream "praise the lord hallelujah ad nauseum..." The materialist secular humanist will claim it was "a bit of undigested beaf... nothing more... or some intense psychological phenominon." Boring. But what is the TRUE interpretation? Is there one? Perhaps the experience should be weighed against other similar experiences....