This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:22:11 -0500
"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:

> How can we
> discuss that which we can't define? How can we define that which we
> can't know?

Just a follow-up ...

This is one of the reasons that very few 'mystics' discuss their
experiences. Some have written about them, but the most famous (or
infamous, depending on your viewpoint) examples are mediæval, because
the Middle Ages were, well, like that, you know...

Such literature is of course seen as delusional by
rationalists, and also by many "people of faith", incidentally. The
wisdom in some of the writings is thus dismissed, which is
understandable. Part of the problem is the tendency always to reach for
definition, which harks back to the point I made about humans liking
labels.

I recall the great US marathoner Frank Shorter, when asked why he ran
marathons, saying something on the lines of:

"I hate to talk about it. It's like trying to explain colours to a man
born blind."

I suspect mystics mostly have a similar feeling.

Peter