Do
existing methodologies encourage religious experience as a form of spiritual
materialism?
April
1995
Abstract
It is suggested that the useful work done by scholars on religious
experience could be complemented and extended by looking at questions
of impulse, orientation and continuum in relation to the pedagogical
or transformative nature of the bulk of the writings of the mystics.
Comment (31/5/1998)
This essay lays out some of my reservations about focusing on mystical
or peak experience, which take place in time, as against a change in
the continuum of the individual. My views on this have not changed.
Submitted
for the Core Course.
3,900 words