Who decides what is spiritualistic or religious experience? The debate on the spiritual milieu is all about experience, but what do we take as a starting point for spiritual experience? The scientific definition, an experience described by the experiencer as spiritual, an experience described as spiritual by someone close to the experiencer or an experience that is not yet labeled as spiritual but can be from the scientific point of view.
In my previous post I quoted Jane Goodall on some mystic experience by chimps. For the English readers, this experiences is about ritual like behaviour near a waterfall. Jane Goodall said that the only thing between this behaviour and religious behaviour was that the chimps can’t share ideas, only facts. So, when becomes an experience a spiritual one?
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