Talk:Ineffability
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Jason Blum points out the ineffability is a common and cross-cultural experience. He points to neurological evidence that suggests "non-linguistic" knowing is a common feature of consciousness in the animal and human kingdom and suggest that contra to the "perennialist position," cross-cultural similiarites in mystical experience are not the result of a shared mystical-object but the result of "Shared structure of the human brain."
"Current neuroscientific and psychological evidence, however, suggests a competing explanation for such cross-cultural similarities. Rather than indicating a common mystic object, such similarities may instead merely be products of the shared structure of the human brain."[1]
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References
- ↑ Blum, Jason N. "The Science of Consciousness and Mystical Experience: An Argument for Radical Empiricism." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 82 1 (2014): 150-73. p. 168
