DrW wrote:Nightlion wrote:Whether in the body of out of the body I could not tell.........
Seems like an experience of this magnitude by a mature adult keeps the memory of it alive in their eternal intelligence and can later imprint the same on the fleshy tables of the brain.
You have an internally inconsistent statement on your hand there, NL. It is a self-contradictory.
Magical thinking of this kind is not engaged in by mature adults, by definition (of both "mature adult" and "magical thinking").Magical thinking is a type of causal reasoning or causal fallacy that looks for meaningful relationships of grouped phenomena between acts and events. In religion, folk religion, and superstition, the correlation posited is between religious ritual, such as prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense.
{In Psychology, the reasoning often exhibited of 3 to 5 year olds is characterized as magical thinking. Most kids grow out of it.)
I remember as a kid of five years old bragging to my buddy that my dad was like superman. He was bragging too that his grandpa was the strongest man in Norway. Yeah, okay, kids do that.
You cannot connect that sort of magical thinking with EVERYTHING spiritual. I know the difference perfectly.