" As in any other field, spiritual intuitions are amenable to intersubjective consensus, and refutation. Just as mathematicians can enjoy mutually intelligible dialogue on abstract ideas (though they will not always agree about what is intuitively 'obvious'), just as athletes can communicate effectively about the pleasures of sport, mystics can consensually elucidate the data of their sphere. Thus, genuine mysticism can be 'objective'-- in the only normative sense of this word that is worth retaining-- in that it need not be contaminated by dogma. As a phenomenon to be studied, spiritual experience is no more refractory that dreams, emotions, perpetual illusions, or, indeed, thoughts themselves."
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Solid Rock Cathedral of Faith ChurchYouth Department Archives
May 2021
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