Podcast Transcript - Truth Defined Through Experience
Podcast Transcript - Truth Defined Through Experience
Audio and Show Notes 0:00:23 Welcome back to the Logos of Experience and Truth podcast where I work to unlock the mysteries of the Beatific Vision. What I want to do in this episode is finish talking about the why in the title, the last words in the name of this podcast, experience and truth. Why is experience so important in defining one's truth? It's obviously very apparent if you've listened to any of the previous podcasts, that I am deriving the majority of my information from my own experience. Now that information has been refined, I've considered, thought about, meditated, written everything that I possibly can to understand the experiences that I've had. Comparing them to the experiences other persons have had, written down, all the experiences in the various religious texts, mystical texts, esoteric texts. I've gone into everything that I possibly can so that I can understand what it is that I experienced and explain it better. But no matter how many episodes I make, no matter how hard I try, no matter how much I write, everything that I attempt, just as any other mystic that has had some type of religious vision will attest to, it is impossible to explain it to you listening in a way that will . . . I don't want to say convince you of its validity. I mean, obviously, if you've listened to any of these episodes, you know that I'm not just making up whatever it is I experienced. Maybe you have your own idea about what was really going on with what I experienced, some type of drug use, which I've been very clear on explaining that my first experience was a drug use and I've worked to try and differentiate the drug experience versus what can traditionally be called the philosophic experience of religious mystical vision through the mysteries. Since I've experienced both, I feel I've been able to at least compare the two of what is and is not the same and what is and is not different, but it's still incredibly difficult to convey that experience and what that experience does to a person. And I'm just talking about the mystical experience or a mystical vision. Right? But, I mean, this applies to anything. If you've been to a waterfall and you try and explain what going to a waterfall is like to somebody that has not been to a waterfall, there's only so much you're going to be able to explain to that person about the waterfall. They're not going to fully grasp it if they have never been to a waterfall, especially a big one. I remember I had the same thing . . . I had been to little waterfalls in the past and then when I finally went to Yosemite, it was like an eye opener, just like, whoa. This is a different kind of experience versus the little waterfall that was an hour away from me. There's just something different when you actually experience something. That to me is what true religion is, what true religious practices are all about. Read the full article