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When Spiritual Experience Lacks Religious Language

I meditate every morning and feel connected to something vast, but when people ask what I believe I freeze up because I don't have words for it that don't sound ridiculous.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between felt experience and available vocabulary creates a crisis of articulation that questions the validity of personal revelation.

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