Episode 13, Religious Experience (Part III)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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You can find links to all the reading at www.thepanpsycast.com. Make sure you've subscribed to us on iTunes to get new episodes as and when they're released! Thank you, we hope you enjoy the episode! Part I. Mystical Experience (in Part I, 10:35), Part II. Conversion Experience (in Part I, 39:40), Part III. Ways in which individual religious experience can be understood (in Part II, 25:40), Part IV. Criticisms, Analysis and Discussion (start of Part III).
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| 0:00.0 | Pan, pan, pan, pan, sci-I-i-i-i-cast. |
| 0:04.5 | Nailed it. |
| 0:05.4 | Let's jump back into the wonderful world of strict rigorous academic philosophy. |
| 0:13.7 | Part four, analyses and discussion. |
| 0:19.4 | It's that part of the show where we all get to have fun, criticize, |
| 0:23.0 | and he loses his rag over the whole religious thing, |
| 0:25.9 | and everyone has a laugh as well. |
| 0:27.6 | So we're going to look at strengths, criticisms, |
| 0:29.9 | the things in between, a bit of back and forth, |
| 0:31.9 | a bit of freestyle, philosophical ultimatum, |
| 0:34.7 | and a few jokes in there as well. |
| 0:36.8 | So I guess what are your thoughts on religious experience? |
| 0:39.6 | You want to start off with a strength? What's good about religious experience or William James |
| 0:44.1 | or anything we spoke about already? Sure. Well, I'll start off. I think if you are a person who |
| 0:48.9 | believes in God already and you have a religious experience, then I guess it's, there's something to be said |
| 0:56.5 | that the majority of people that have these experiences are very vocal of the firm beliefs |
| 1:00.9 | they have afterwards, whether they can explain the experience or not. They definitely, |
| 1:05.0 | you know, if we're using a Christian example, believe in God and are very dedicated to that |
| 1:08.8 | cause. You know, even if we look at St. Paul, it's not like he was just like, oh, I'm going to believe in God now. You know, he dedicated his life to the spreading of this message, and he was persecuted for it, and did suffer for it to a certain extent. His head chopped off. So I said, to his... Well, and he didn't have to do that. He could have had his religious experience and just, you know, gone whatever. I'm still going to love killing them Christians and chopping their heads off. But he didn't. You know, he obviously felt something that whether or not we could argue that was epilepsy or not, his dedication is undeniable. So he did some good. Can I play devil's advocate? One if he had a religious experience and it told him that he should extra |
| 1:49.4 | if he thought Jesus said, keep it up, go on, up the ante a little bit. |
| 1:55.0 | Is that still a good? |
| 1:57.0 | I didn't say the British experience was good. |
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