From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:45:34 EST
Subject: Re: New Year, Same Old Crap


In a message dated 1/5/99 1:23:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
pyrew-AT-csv.warwick.ac.uk writes:

<< Two people undergo the same experience but describe it totally
 differently, eg 'vision of angels'/'alien visitation'. Are you going to 
 believe them both?  >>

Absolutely, and I am going to listen to the nature of the experiences they
had, and possibly discover their openness to other modelizations. Their
ideological rigidity -- their need for purity, perfectionism, etc. -- may
interfere with open dialogue, but is an entirely different matter than the
validity of the experience itself.