The Truth Process

There is a huge error in theological reasoning. A similar one is still very prevalent in medicine. The reasoning is that if you do or think something and then you feel good, it be because what you thought about or did was a true treatment or true idea. This method can make sugar pills into a healing balm. It can also make heaven become a giant fuzzy field of baby kittens into "truth". This is delusion and placebo. It is what I call "pseudo-spirituality", it is VERY prevalent in nearly all religious cultures. It used to more prevalent in medical and psychological cultures, but it's being increasingly identified and slowly becoming less prevalent. I hope the same thibg happens in religion. I myself was a contributed to this line of thinking for many years, but have abandoned it when I recognized it. It is difficult to let go of because it makes us feel good, but like you said-- it's unreliable and it can occur with just about any idea, just like it can occu...

someone said " No religion has a monopoly on strong spiritual experiences." This opening statement is something that DIRECTLY confronts a unspoken cultural belief held my many traditional members of the church. It is however, very true. There are many people within the church who are of the opinion that any spiritual experience had by any person not belonging to the church must be either delusional or deceptive in nature. There are plenty of commonly accepted traditional ideas passed down among members of the LDS church that I do not believe, and the idea that mormons have a monopoly on any kind of spiritual experiences is one of them. Someone said:  People often get intense, personal, spiritual, confirmations of religious truths they believe in.  Houston, Texas offered a very diverse religious population. I interviewed all shapes and colors of Christianity, but also got to meet with people who identified as Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, and Sikh, just to name a few. During m...