I wasn’t expecting this book to be that good!

This book contains a vast array of examples of religious/mystical experiences that would, by themselves, exacerbate any religiosity already present in the reader. These experiences as reported by many saints, ascetics, and all form of renunciates who lived these ecstatic raptures in the flesh, so to say, are, for the most part, strikingly uniform, and the ultimate conclusion derived by all of them is that a deity actually exists.

William James, a psychologist, gathered up all these data and analyzed its contents in a scientific manner. How much would the reader agree on his conclusions that, given the actual effects on people who report this experiences (of new energies unleashed, general relaxation of the body, etc.), something must exist that produces such effects, call it divine or not, and that this energy must come from the subliminal part of ordinary consciousness, that is, the subconscious mind?

I will let the reader obtain this book for his own study, if so he or she wants.

It is obvious to say that I’m of the same view as the author, though I have arrived at this notion of an existing Self, aka., consciousness, that is attribute-less and pure, through the philosophical rationalistic method (which he underestimates in the book) rather than the scientific one. I will add to it, though, that were it not for my own transcendental and mystical experiences, I would have not understood what philosophy, sometimes precariously, tries to communicate for language is just a bad translator.

Against both science and philosophy who are based on inference, the direct perception of the Self is the clearer and stronger evidence which only experience can confer. The saint or the mystic has had this experience. He does not need second hand explanations for the existence of the divine. It is for us, the less endowed, that translation is needed in the form of theology, rituals, and exercises.

For a methodical experimentation of what is mystical, especially for those who did not born with any mystical gifts, is that kriya yoga exists (among other spiritual practices).

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