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Donald MacKay

Mystics, Skeptics, and Nothing Buttery

August 5, 2016 by Randal

In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks offers an interesting neurological account of the visions of the great mystic Hildegard of Bingen. Sacks recounts one of Hildegard’s writings titled “The Fall of the Angels” where she describes witnessing the fall of Satan and his minions: “I saw a great star most […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Donald MacKay, idealism, mysticism, nothing buttery, Oliver Sacks, reductionism, science, skepticism

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