Hacker News with Generative AI: Mysticism

Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe (theatlantic.com)
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
The Varieties of Mystical Experience (bookforum.com)
“WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO BE LIFTED UP and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of aliveness?” Could you use “some relief from misery, from melancholy”? Are you seeking a way to feel less “anxious, wretched, bored”?