Or... mysticism fetishizes religious fixations in order to create power structure amongst naive fundamentalists.
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Replying to @Jayarava
Sounds like manipulative obscurantism to me. Words will take only so much bending.
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Replying to @hokaisobol
Yes, I think mysticism is "manipulative obscurantism", certainly the latter.
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Replying to @Jayarava
In most Western languages those two stand in opposition, obscurantism being a travesty or pretence of mysticism.
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Replying to @hokaisobol
Look for example at how carefully Stanford defines mysticism to avoid acknowledging that it has any validity. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/ …
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Replying to @Jayarava
Good, as expected from Stanford.
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