Thanks for replying to me and for the excerpt. Well, I happen to believe in exceptionalism. Just as Newton, Einstein, and possibly Stephen Hawking were the exceptional individuals in physics who revolutionized human understanding about cosmology in some fundamental ways, I understand that there are some individuals, who, by some gene mutation or some freakish wiring in their brains are endowed with uncommon abilities (autistic savants in mathematical calculations, music, and memory; and mystics (besides the three individuals I already mentioned, we should also include Lao-Tzu (Laozi for modern spelling) and the sages of the Upanishads). Mankind, at least the educated and informed ones, have acknowledged their contributions to metaphysics and honored them as such. You could easily ensure your name among the human immortals if you could write convincingly to debunk a common belief that there were/are mystics who did/do have special wisdom and depth of understanding about metaphysics.
Mysticism is like orgasmic sex. One must experience it to know what it is like. No book or verbal description would do justice to the real thing.
Mysticism is a rare experience, not easily accessed by common folks. But common folks must instinctively yearn for it somehow. Alas, for them they only occasionally have fleeting moments of it through music, booze, recreational drugs, and hallucinogenic substances. True mystics have easy access to it through the special wiring in their brain.
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