Consciousness is mystical, attempts to de-mystify it fail

The rise of the Demystifiers

There is a new attempt underway to de-mystify consciousness, and specifically, the mystical experience. I will call them, unimaginatively, the Demystifiers. The Demystiers argue that consciousness is identical with, or the result of, brain chemistry, and that the mystical experience is not an experience of real transcendence but is an experience of some…