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In reply to the discussion: What is so mysterious about human consciousness? [View all]Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)That, I believe, is one thing that those who have experienced have that they can share. We read something written by another fellow explorer and say "yes! That's what I'm trying to say." We feel that sense that we are indeed talking about the same thing.
In so many other areas, like religion (and politics) you can't find any two people who agree about anything! But when meditators talk to each other they all seem to be saying the same thing, and they all seem to agree, regardless of whether they learned their technique from a Buddhist monk, or a Hindu guru, or a Christian mystic, or a Muslim Sufi. We all come together in a place where there is simply no disagreement about what we find when we explore within. It is that consistency of experience, which in science is the much sought after "replicability" that lends credence to the reality of the experience.
"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."
--Daniel Webster
Which is a good reason to distrust religion, and the opposite state of affairs is a good reason to trust meditation.
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