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    Challenges→Mystical experiences cannot provide evidence in favor of their validity as experiences of God

    Different theistic faiths claim experience of the one and only God, ostensibly justifying beliefs that contradict one another

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    Diversity of claims, and especially any genuinely conflicting claims, would impact the Argument from Experience for the epistemic value of mystical experiences. In the history of religions, we find innumerable gods, with different characteristics. Shall we say they all exist? Can belief in all of them be rational? In addition, there are experiences of non-personal ultimate realities, such as the Brahman of Advaita Vedanta. Brahman cannot be an ultimate reality if God is (Hick 1984, 234–235) sinc

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