Most accounts of mystical experiences… insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be “living” or alive, as in “living God.” But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize? Does it reproduce – an option that monotheism would seem to foreclose?

Most accounts of mystical experiences… insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be “living” or alive, as in “living God.” But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize? Does it reproduce – an option that monotheism would seem to foreclose?

– Barbara Ehrenreich –

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything

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