Religious experience should be understood as fundamentally different from mental illness despite both involving altered brain states, because religious experiences show characteristics of sanity, awareness, and transformation rather than pathology.
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“religious experience and spiritual experience are at the very least in a distinct category from mental illness. People who have religious experiences are very often entirely sane and entirely aware of the strangeness of the experience they've had”
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