THE THREE GRAMMARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRE THREE DIFFERENT CRITERIA FOR EXISTENCE.
–“Q: Curt: How is it you have this certainty that the spiritual terms are nonsense”–
There are three possible forms of existence: material persistence independent of us. Verbal description of experience dependent upon us but sharable. And Intuitionistic experience dependent upon the individual, both impersistent and un-sharable.
So, do you mean scientifically as in testifiable(material), or the sense of literary and philosophical phenomenalism(verbal), in the sense of theological intuition of supernatural observation(imaginary) of alternate dimensions, or universes?
If there is some analogy across all three of those frames (demonstrable, descriptive, and imaginary) then we can say we are referring to the same shared experience.
If, instead, you mean that the phenomenal, or the imaginary exists other than as experience or imagination then that is neither demonstrable, testifiable, sharable, and it is false.
At this point we know enough about the structure of the universe that any system of information transfer other than those we are aware of is impossible. And we cannot find one single example of the supernatural despite legions of people seeking to discover one, and legions of professionals determining their false every, single, time.
I can address the spiritual, and just as a movie or novel or scripture can convey a set of imagined and felt qualia to you, it can be explained. This does not mean anything other than that these are three levels of the mind, that correspond to the hierarchy of mental processing. And that mental processing is biased toward the internal sensory(feelings), the external and internal empathic(others), or the external systemic (action).
So, you cannot testify to the spiritual, but that does not mean the experience is irrelevant or not meaningful to you. As long as you do not engage in self harm by (addiction) to a falsehood.
Cheers
CD
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