So mystic experiences are different only because those who experience them are of different faiths and hence use different vocabularies, symbolisms and mythologies to describe them. Or maybe it's because they are of those faiths, and hence geared towards having a mystic experience of a certain type. Which came first, the faith or the religion? Perhaps the experience isn't the result of the faith, but rather the faith is the result of an attempt to describe the experience. What is a mystic experience, anyway? Is enlightenment always good? Doesn't that presuppose that this divine figure (what I jokingly refer to as DOUG - Deity Of Unspecified Gender) is benevolent, good, light. What about Heaven's Gate and all that? Did they have a mystic experience? Maybe they were enlightened to death.

I love this class. Deeply, spiritually, but not sexually. Give me time, though. It's only week three.