Four shocking conclusions so far in this search for a theory of spiritual experience:

First, Noam Chomsky is one of the best theologians of today! Don’t believe me? Go back and listen to what Chomsky says about Newton and the mechanical paradigm of nature. Newton is saying, “There are no machines.” I find this very exciting! There must be something wrong with me. Some still don’t get it. Chomsky believes there is great potential in the phenomenology of consciousness and the Cambridge Platonists in the study of language. Only theologians and a few economists get it (See these two fantastic interviews with Steve Keen, and Jim G. Rickards who are way ahead of the times). You heard it a million times. Listen to these lectures by Chomsky. During the four years I spent in graduate school studying philosophy, Noam Chomsky was never mentioned once in or out of the classroom:

Noam Chomsky on Logic/Epistemology/Metaphysics

“You could not have any capacities at all, if you didn’t have limits because the capacities determine the limits.”—Noam Chomsky on principles and perimeters. 

Secondly, I am still laughing about Martin Heidegger being philosophically the Christian theologian Schleiermacher incognito. Right-wing extremists like the Silver Shirts knew it intuitively because they attempted to suppress this entire area of study in the U.S. (The pre-Socratics in particular); the Left-wing does not have a clue. Without any evidence, I pursued Heidegger’s fundamental ontology because of the theological themes found everywhere in his writings, but in a demythologized form. I knew about Schleiermacher's theology, but I did not know Heidegger lectured on Schleiermacher until a few weeks before I posted it!

Some universities in English language countries have been putting out this propaganda for decades that Heidegger was a Nazi. Well, Heidegger was a Nazi in the same sense that you and I are Americans. I am an American while my imperialist government is by remote control, or by proxy murdering, raping, and torturing the guilty with the innocent all over the world. The hypocrisy is astounding as critics point their finger at Heidegger in self-righteous judgment as Americans remained silent while the Neo-Fascist-Mafia took over the country.

The character assassination of Heidegger was a sociological propaganda hit job. A.) I could find nothing in his works “Being and Time” and “Introduction to Metaphysics” that had any fascist ideology. B.) Heidegger had at least two very good character witnesses. First, German-born Jewish philosopher and theologian Hannah Arendt who spent time in a concentration camp before escaping was not only Heidegger’s student, but also his paramour. She never denounced Heidegger. Secondly, German Christian theologian Paul Tillich was the first non-Jewish professor expelled from the German university system by the Nazis. That should tell you something about Paul Tillich. His entire three volume work “Systematic Theology” (1951-1964)(pdf.) is structured on Heidegger’s fundamental ontology and actually refers to Heidegger by name thirteen times. Tillich never denounced Heidegger. C.) Lastly, even if he was a true ideological Nazi it still is an Ad hominem argument. 

I am totally convinced that the entire US education system is designed to only teach college students to make ad hominem arguments because academia is totally bankrupt. They teach Heidegger, Newton, Karl Marx, and Wittgenstein in the most stupid and dishonest ways. The American educational system makes you into a fool. D.) The Nazis didn’t care much for Heidegger and named him the “The Most Useless Professor” then sending him digging ditches by the Rhine. 

Without any historical context, for context is subversive, the entire educational system of America steers students away from Heidegger for fear that Christian Socialism may rise again. The Fascist Nazis and the US government have a common enemy—New Testament Christianity. That’s why today we have this pus some call Christianity that allies itself with any authoritarian movement that comes around. The American oligarchy will never ever tell you the truth. Every word from their mouth is an outrageous stupid lie to make you into an idiot.

Thirdly, the phenomenological Epoche turned out to be something totally different from what I was taught. I am not surprised that this religious interpretation of the Epoche is passed over. Religion is not taken seriously because it is judged a prior as irrational and center right professors are the worst! They are similar to the pseudo-intellectual cultured despiser of religion, Sam Harris. How would you like to have a person like him be your college professor? I had one like him. 

Harris reminds me of something that happened years ago. A politically conservative language analysis professor offered a class on Wittgenstein’s work, Philosophical Investigations (1953). At the beginning of the first class on the first day, he announced that the syllabus would be primarily concerned with Wittgenstein’s analysis of logical positivism’s verification theory and not “metaphysical issues like theology.” He stood their silent and then about one third of the class walked out with their heads up. He tried to humiliate them. It was just so many less pounds of meat to teach. I should have walked out with them, but I was nearly finished with my graduate work. The class was cancelled because of too few students! By the way Professor, Wittgenstein doesn’t teach verification theory in the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations (1953) is not even positivistic…***hole! Wittgenstein had utter contempt for academic philosophy. Paul Tillich is also suppressed in academia because he contradicts the fascist dogma of American Christian fundamentalism.

If I knew then what I know now, I would have been a much better student, and a lot more trouble. 

Logical Positivism is a political movement, not scientific objectivism (My bold text for emphasis):

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“But the final view of the Tractatus is that the simples are fixed, immutable things, which exist “independently of what is the case.” If so, they cannot be described by propositions and cannot be given in experience. The Tractatus does not contain, therefore, an empiricist theory of meaning ….The picture theory is not a verification theory of meaning. It is ironical that the role of verification in meaning and understanding receives much attention in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, which obviously is not positivistic, but none at all in the reputedly positivistic Tractatus…” Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability,” said Rudolf Carnap. In view of the Tractatus one may gain insights into the presuppositions and limits of language, thought, and reality. These metaphysical insights cannot be stated in language, but if they could be, they would be true insights and not mere muddles or expressions of feelings”(by Norman Malcolm [Oxford classmate of Wittgenstein]The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edward, Macmillian Pub.Vol. 7. Wittgenstein, pp 334).

Why don’t the Logical Positivists teach verification theory from the Tractatus? Oh, because it isn’t there. So they have to cram Verification Theory down your throat in the later Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations which is not positivistic. All persons that are non-believers in verification theory can now leave the room. You can’t speak because you are not allowed to speak and still be within the sphere of Reason. 

Lastly, Wittgenstein was a serious Christian and mystic. It makes sense that the Vienna Circle Logical Positivists led by physicist Moritz Schlick rejected Wittgenstein’s philosophy just after naming him the founder of logical positivism. Logical positivism is a philosophy of science that originated in Vienna, Austria during the 1920s as a form of extreme empiricism. It proposed that science be based on observable verified empirical facts. Positivism’s most famous contribution is the “Verifiability Theory of Meaning” that says a statement is meaningful if and only if it is empirically verifiable. All judgments must be based on empirical experience as foundational. This school of philosophy no longer formally exists and disbanded in the 1920s because the verifiability principle itself could not be verified! Positivism still has a strong influence in the sciences today.

Positivism simply ignores its epistemological issues. It is a serious problem for an epistemology to not meet its own criteria of meaningfulness. While the verifiability principle seems to work well for particular affirmative existential claims (X is a virus), or particular negative categorical propositions such as  “Not all Scotsmen are Right handed,” (∃x)(Sx * ~Rx). The Verifiability Principle has problems with universal categorical propositions such as “All Crows are Black” (∀x)(Cx --> Bx). The scientist would have to observe every crow that ever existed in order for the proposition to be verified as true or false. Or take the proposition that “All objects on earth fall at the same rate.” Good luck verifying that one. These epistemological problems are all swept under the rug, but still taught as science.