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“A
return to experience. As Paul Smith puts it, "Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to
Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it
moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a
business! We've left the experience long behind." One of the most
important goals of Integral Christianity is to return to this emphasis upon
direct experience, with the understanding that each of us is capable of having
the exact same experiences as the great mystics themselves. -
Additionally, this return to experience is vital for the
rational levels of religion and beyond, as it is the basis for a truly empirical approach to
spirituality and other interior realities, which consists of the following
three-step process:
- injunction (perform the experiment, e.g. look through
the telescope, or through the instrument of meditation)
- apprehension (have an experience, e.g. see the moons of
Jupiter, or have a direct experience of transcendence, satori, or God's
presence)
- confirmation (confirm your experience with a community
of peers, e.g. compare your observations of Jupiter's moons with other
adequately-equipped astronomers, or your experiences of divinity with other
accomplished spiritual practitioners)”
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