Oct 13, 2023
That's well said, and this kind of mysticism leaves exoteric, literalistic Christianity in its dust.
But you're assuming solipsism or metaphysical naturalism, which can't explain the phenomena as easily as can realistic naturalism. The source of our phenomenal experience isn't God/consciousness, but the brain, and the brain exists in the physical universe. It's a question of competing theories of the patterns in our experience.