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…”A few years ago, I took a psychology of religion course at a nearby university.

During a lecture on mysticism, the professor – probably looking for a welcome break from speaking of Jungian archetypes and Freudian subdivisions of the human psyche – asked us students if we’d be interested in learning how to achieve a mystic-esque experience for ourselves. All of us, atheists, religious persons and seekers alike, nodded affirmatively.

“It’s all very simple”, he said smiling, “and you can do it in your own homes. Just get yourself comfortably seated in a dark room, put a blindfold and a set of headphones connected to a radio on. Then adjust the radio dial to a suitable frequency somewhere between two radio stations, where all you hear is white noise. If you sit there long enough, with some of your senses somewhat deprived by the relative darkness and subtle noise, you will start to see and hear things that aren’t really there. A friend of mine tried this, and after a while, he saw his girlfriend who walked through the room, picked up a set of car keys lying in a bookshelf and then left saying she was off to somewhere. Later that day, when he told her about this, she looked at him in disbelief. It turned out that she hadn’t been in their apartment when he claimed she had, neither had she used their car.””…