![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another was a professor of philosophy who prefers to remain anonymous. I’ll call him Mike. One was the Buddhist teacher Stephen Batchelor, a profile of whom I just posted. I interviewed people with both scholarly and personal knowledge of mystical experiences. I ventured into this territory in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism. Wright explores the possibility that meditation can induce powerful mystical states, including the supreme state known as enlightenment. During a mystical experience, you feel as though you are encountering absolute reality, whatever the hell that is. Mysticism has been on my mind again lately, in part because of the success of Why Buddhism Is True by my friend Robert Wright. ![]()
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