I have recently been introduced to ted.com, a great website that features “riveting talks by remarkable people”. One of the talks that I found very interesting is by J.J. Abrams, one of the creators of the TV series Lost. One of the most thought provoking things he says is:
Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge.
A [...]
One’s own is well hidden for one’s
own; and of all treasure troves, one’s
own is the last to be excavated . . .
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra
It dawned me a little while ago that the human condition is one of ongoing tension between the way the world is (ontology) and the way our mind works (psychology).
The world is inherently unpredictable – even our best attempts to make it predictable ultimately fail. We have trouble predicting the weather more then a few [...]
The question of the epistemology of religious experience deals with the question whether information obtained through religious experiences can be considered valid knowledge. For a brief introduction into different forms of religious experience, see my paper on that subject.
Information obtained through religious experiences, which I shall further refer to as Revelation, is not considered valid [...]
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