07-06-2014, 11:00 AM
(07-05-2014, 03:50 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: I've learned since then that you can't take spiritual experiences at face value.Any time one travels through the mind or leaves the physical body anchor there needs to be translation. This means that the experience is no different than dreaming, which can be largely an experience downstepped into symbols.
One of the problems with society today is the propagation of literalism. It hasn't worked for any religion, and is not faring so well with science either. It just pushes us farther and farther away from the memory of symbolic definitions and our ability to co-create in a more efficient manner.