I would argue it has lasted this long due to a totalitarian church violently stomping out potential competition for about 16 centuries. the impulse to prophetic reformation has resurfaced in Protestantism many times.
yes, the presence of that craving is the source of dissatisfaction (me getting slightly doctrinaire at this point, apologies). we ARE the cosmos on an essential level. our feeling of separateness from it is in many ways adaptive but psychologically distressing none-the-less.
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I've come to view this as a false dichotomy and one day I hope to know what words to use to communicate the insight properly. I fear it escapes me at the moment or else you'd be subjected to much too much of my word salad.
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I would believe them insofar as they are reporting what they really experienced. I would not accept any effort of theirs to get me to agree that their vision is an objective truth that applies universally. Their may be ethical principles that can be distilled out of it though.
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