{"id":1489,"date":"2023-04-25T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/25\/unusual-experiences-and-the-problems-of-overbelief-and-underbelief\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T19:48:14","slug":"unusual-experiences-and-the-problems-of-overbelief-and-underbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/25\/unusual-experiences-and-the-problems-of-overbelief-and-underbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Experiences and the Problems of Overbelief and Underbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/unusual-experiences-and-the-problems?sd=pf\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">One day,&#0160;well over 40&#0160;years ago, I was deeply tormented by a swarm of negative thoughts and feelings that had arisen because of a dispute with a certain person.&#0160; Pacing around my apartment, I suddenly, without any forethought, raised my hands toward the ceiling and said, &quot;Release me!&quot;&#0160; It was a wholly spontaneous&#0160;<em>cri de coeur<\/em>, a prayer if you will,&#0160;<em>but not intended as such<\/em>.&#0160;&#0160;I emphasize that it was wholly unpremeditated.&#0160; &#0160; As soon as I had said the words and made the gesture, a wonderful peace descended upon my mind, and the flood of negativity vanished. I became as calm as a Stoic sage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. One day,&#0160;well over 40&#0160;years ago, I was deeply tormented by a swarm of negative thoughts and feelings that had arisen because of a dispute with a certain person.&#0160; Pacing around my apartment, I suddenly, without any forethought, raised my hands toward the ceiling and said, &quot;Release me!&quot;&#0160; It was a wholly spontaneous&#0160;cri de &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/25\/unusual-experiences-and-the-problems-of-overbelief-and-underbelief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unusual Experiences and the Problems of Overbelief and Underbelief&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,310,41,106,155,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-james","category-mysticism","category-spiritual-exercises","category-spiritual-hygiene","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}