REFLECTIONS

As I sometimes do, the other day I was thinking about the spiritual life.  I looked over some of the notes I've been making. I believe God must be experienced and not understood or explained : To experience God must be like experiencing something directly without thought, like a color or flavor or sensation. How can you explain the sensation of sweetness or the experience of the color red? To say consciousness of light is only sensory stimulation or a response to wavelength does not explain the consciousness experienced by the individual. This consciousness cannot be called merely subjective or irrelevant because it is the only way we can be aware of anything without being mindless chemical sacks. It is really the only thing we can be sure of without depending on thoughts which are often mistaken. But with God instead of being a physical sensation it must be a spiritual sensation or feeling even if it is experienced in a physical way. Just as the experience of the color