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Does Talking About a Mystical Experience Make it Stronger?

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Carl McColman
Mar 11, 2021
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A reader wrote in to ask this question:

If you share with others a moment of profound mystical insight that you have does it, in fact, make it stronger and real for the person with the epiphany? In other words, in the retelling does it gain strength?

It’s a great question, and I think the answer is, “Generally speaking, Yes.”

In other words, it’s one thing…

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