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Originally Posted by Vulcan
One thing that religion or other spiritual ways can offer is an experience which can't be explained by science or previous worldly experiences. From my observations, if the experience is profound enough or long lasting enough, even intelligent people sometimes throw all their other logic out the window and begin to accept the Bible, Koran, Gita etc. and or their teacher as infallible and you can get people saying and believing the world is only 5 or 6 thousand years old and other rubbish.
For myself the experience can be very real, the rest of it is mostly delusion.
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I think you speak of the Transcendant experience, something Sam Harris believes is an experience we can grow to understand more through science but that it has been experienced by believers and non believers alike.
But again, because an experience is real to you; and its probably real anyhow, doesn't prove anything other than you are capable of such experiences.
The neat thing is Sam Harris works at UC Berkley researching neuroscience and is trying to get at the heart of spiritualism without religion, meditation and these experiences that humans have all around the world.
I think religion hijacked this and claimed it as its own and in the next 100yrs as we begin to understand our brains better we'll discover that its an experience that can be reached through various means such as meditation.