[MD] atheistic and content

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On 12 Mar 2010 at 15:32, Andre Broersen wrote:

> Marsha, the 'mystical' IS direct experience, it is religious. It is a
> binding together...the state before the unbound, before subjects and
> objects, before the divisions. To say that 'it can be directly
> experienced' is not correct. It is direct experience.
> And those that have had this experience and spread their findings and
> learnings have been turned into gods and 'mystics' themselves around
> which static patterns of faith have arisen.

Direct experience is not something you "have had." It is what you "have" 
all the time. In fact, direct experience is what you are before you get 
split conceptually into self/other, soul/body, mind/matter, etc., etc..

Platt