149. Notes - Experience with a capital

149. 13 June 2019

         Afternoon. You noticed several hits yesterday and today on Encounters in Mind. I find it interesting and relevant to this blog so drop it in below as you already made a copy. - Amorella

       1327 hours. I found it interesting because I had forgotten all about it, but this blog is about Miss Havisham and I don't see how that is relevant because it is a different subject. 

        Below is a heavily edited article recomposed into personalized 'article notes' for relevance to this blog. The more complete article can be read at: 'wikipedia.com - experience' or at encountersinmind@blogspot.com. Notes: 02 June 2026, titled, "The Dewdrop Discoveries - Selected Definitions". - Amorella

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Partial Notes from - Encounters in Mind, 02 June 2016

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Experience

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Reduced to personal notes.]

Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it. Terms in philosophy, such as "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge," are used to refer to knowledge based on experience... 

Experience plays an important role in the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard. The German term Erfahrung, often translated into English as "experience", has a slightly different implication, connoting the coherency of life’s experiences...

Two Types of experience

The word "experience" may refer, somewhat ambiguously, both to mentally unprocessed immediately perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them.

A. Subjective

1. Subjective experience can involve a state of individual subjectivity, perception on which one builds one's own state of reality; a reality based on one’s interaction with one's environment.

2. The subjective experience depends on one’s individual ability to process data, to store and internalize it. 

B. Spiritual

"Question of God"

By A. Newberg & E. D'Aquili

Wired for the Ultimate Reality: The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience

It has now become possible to consider asking questions regarding how complex behaviors, thoughts, and feelings occur, even when they are associated with religious and spiritual experience . . . . Can we use our subjective sense of the absolute certainty of the objective reality of our everyday world to establish that that world is "really real"?

To simplify the issue somewhat, let us for the momentcontrast 

the most extreme unitary state, 

what we have calledAbsolute Unitary Being(AUB), 

with baseline reality. 

AUBrefers to the rare state

in which there is a complete loss of the sense of self, 

loss of the sense of space and time, 

and everything becomes an infinite, undifferentiated oneness. 

Baseline reality demonstrates the following four fundamental properties:

•                1. A strong sense of the reality of what is experienced.

•                2. Endurance of that reality through very long periods of time, usually only interrupted by sleeping.

•                3. The sense that when elements in baseline reality disappear from all forms of sensory detection, they have ceased to be.

•                4. High cross—subjective validation both for details of perception and core meaning. In other words, other people corroborate our perceptions of the world, i.e., reality is a collective hunch.

Clearly, baseline reality has some significant claim to being ultimate reality. 

However, AUB is so compelling that it is very difficult indeed to write off the assertion of its reality. . . 

Neuropsychology can give no answer as to which state is more real, baseline reality or hyperlucid unitary consciousness often experienced as God. 

We may be reduced to saying that each is real in its own way and for its own adaptive ends.

Thus, the essential characteristic of different states of reality are eventually reducible only to the strength of the sense of reality,the phantasia catalyptica of the Stoics, or the Anwesenheit (compelling presence) of certain modern German philosophers. 

A vivid sense of reality may be the only thing that we can use to help determine what is really real until someone determines a method for going beyond the brain's perception of reality.

In The Mystical Mind, we explore the concept of neurotheology as a way to help better answer the epistemological question raised above — is AUB or baseline reality more real? 

It might ultimately be best to consider both versions of reality to be complementary, rather than opposed, to each other.

However, this conclusion also has important implications for religion, theology, and the scientific study of religious experiences. 

As a field, the neuroscientific analysis of religious and spiritual experiences is only in its infancy. Much more research must be pursued before we can begin to better understand these complex experiences. 

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       Kim and Paul are home. You are home.  Carol is in bed reading her book and you are in the black lounger. The article above spoke of religious experiences but you prefer spiritual experiences. You would like another word for spiritual because it has cultural connotations. - Amorella

       We souls have a word and while not fully translatable into English it is a word that states the opposite of 'materially-physics'; the base setting of the Living: the fully-unlacking, as in we souls are 'fully-unlackings'. It is a joke word. A wrong word, but more understandable to humans speaking English would be: we souls are 'fully-nothing'. Another would be: we souls are 'fullyfulls'. mh

       2246 hours. Fullyfulls is the most fun to say, i.e. Souls are fullyfulls. 

       Let's use fullyfulls then. Variations of which are references to the opposite of the setting of the physical universe. Instead of a spiritualist you are a fullyfuller, at least in my book. - mh

       2254 hours. Thank you very much, Miss Havisham. I am honored to be considered such by the soul I spiritually inhabit.

       You see, you are learning a new perception of what a soul is, whether empty or holding a human's spiritual heartanmind. - mh

       2300 hours. I am enjoying; delighting in the experience. 

       'Experience' is a good way to conclude today's blog. Post. - Amorella