Re: OT: News of nuns

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:02:07 GMT, "Steve Brooks"
<steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm also an atheist. But I can't deny that religious experience is a real
phenomenon even as I deny the supposed source of that phenomenon. I didn't
see anything in the article suggesting that what was being studied was a
disorder. I'd assume it was part of the spectrum of normal human experience.
In fact I suspect I've experienced it myself on occasions. I just haven't
interpreted it as the result of the presence of a divine being.

I certainly have experienced it
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