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The Gift of the Touchstone: Part 10 (opens the original)
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Our culture tends to label mystical experiences “religious” and then dismiss them as the self-induced delusions of true believers. “It’s all in their minds,” we’re told.I have invited some of my Christian friends to share their “touchstone experiences,” which were as beneficial to them in later life as were to their subjects any of the secular experiences I’ve described in this series. I am a lumper, not a splitter, and I see a kinship between religious and secular experiences—the only differenc
The Gift of the Touchstone, Part 9: (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about the “touchstone experiences” I’ve recounted here—and I am starting to conclude that they are just a natural part of human life on earth. They are wonderful as well as natural—mysteriously awe-inspiring and beneficial in people’s lives. They are therefore worthy of a more welcoming place in our overly-materialistic culture. This is especially so in this age of manifest cruelty and destruction, when beneficent counterpoints can keep us from closing ourselves off from the w
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