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The Role Of Spiritual Experience

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Eventually, to approach spiritual experience means to approach a different actuality than the current one. The spiritual experience comprises a prophetic dimension as it actualizes what is our nearest into our furthest – it allows us to understand the actuality of humanity. It turns out that experience, understood as tryout, represents the central aspect of any spirituality. At the same time experience, in its valence of experiment, is the essential component of science. One cannot speak about science as long as there is not an experimental frame, without unfolding some experiments. But precisely in this double reference to a form of tryout, I consider that there is an area of a real rapprochement between the one who performs a spiritual experience …show more content…

They both put the reality to tryout, on one way or another. In fact, this rapprochement is more difficult and represents a EDITOR’S FOREWARD: THE ROLE OF SPIRITUALITY TODAY AND THE MEANINGS OF TRADITION

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