Jack Symes

Like you see these documentaries on Netflix, right, that don't mention the bad things that happen to people. And I think if it corresponds to religious experience, as you pointed out there, they have certain similar comparable analogous properties about them. then it's probably the same kind of phenomena, the same kind of data.

Like you see these documentaries on Netflix, right, that don't mention the bad things that happen to people. And I think if it corresponds to religious experience, as you pointed out there, they have certain similar comparable analogous properties about them. then it's probably the same kind of phenomena, the same kind of data.

Like you see these documentaries on Netflix, right, that don't mention the bad things that happen to people. And I think if it corresponds to religious experience, as you pointed out there, they have certain similar comparable analogous properties about them. then it's probably the same kind of phenomena, the same kind of data.

The Alistair Hardy Research Centre asked for people to write in with their religious experiences and just tell them about them, right? And the researchers were really surprised. Alistair Hardy himself said, I didn't think 5% of these were going to be people seeing the devil or...

The Alistair Hardy Research Centre asked for people to write in with their religious experiences and just tell them about them, right? And the researchers were really surprised. Alistair Hardy himself said, I didn't think 5% of these were going to be people seeing the devil or...

The Alistair Hardy Research Centre asked for people to write in with their religious experiences and just tell them about them, right? And the researchers were really surprised. Alistair Hardy himself said, I didn't think 5% of these were going to be people seeing the devil or...

having Satan watch over their baby every night or walking down the street and suddenly feel like I'm falling through the circles of hell, terrified for the next several years. These are religious experiences from people from what year was this? This is like the last 30, 40 years or so. I think this data was collected in the 80s maybe.

having Satan watch over their baby every night or walking down the street and suddenly feel like I'm falling through the circles of hell, terrified for the next several years. These are religious experiences from people from what year was this? This is like the last 30, 40 years or so. I think this data was collected in the 80s maybe.

having Satan watch over their baby every night or walking down the street and suddenly feel like I'm falling through the circles of hell, terrified for the next several years. These are religious experiences from people from what year was this? This is like the last 30, 40 years or so. I think this data was collected in the 80s maybe.

The data, like they just asked for them to account to give their examples of these experiences. But what's notable is First of all, the phrase religious experience and it being negative is kind of like oxymoronic. Right, we never think of that. Yeah, we don't. And they asked for religious experiences with no mention of negative stuff.

The data, like they just asked for them to account to give their examples of these experiences. But what's notable is First of all, the phrase religious experience and it being negative is kind of like oxymoronic. Right, we never think of that. Yeah, we don't. And they asked for religious experiences with no mention of negative stuff.

The data, like they just asked for them to account to give their examples of these experiences. But what's notable is First of all, the phrase religious experience and it being negative is kind of like oxymoronic. Right, we never think of that. Yeah, we don't. And they asked for religious experiences with no mention of negative stuff.

So let's say if it's about 5%, and that's a modest generalization, right, given they didn't ask for it. Let's say it's about 5%. And then you take the number of people that have claimed to have had religious experiences.

So let's say if it's about 5%, and that's a modest generalization, right, given they didn't ask for it. Let's say it's about 5%. And then you take the number of people that have claimed to have had religious experiences.

So let's say if it's about 5%, and that's a modest generalization, right, given they didn't ask for it. Let's say it's about 5%. And then you take the number of people that have claimed to have had religious experiences.

Then the amount of people existing in the world now who have had negative religious experiences outweighs the total number of people who are Zoroastrian, Jains, people who are Jewish. We consider them significant minorities. Add all those groups together to the, I think it's in between maybe one or two million people have had negative religious experiences.

Then the amount of people existing in the world now who have had negative religious experiences outweighs the total number of people who are Zoroastrian, Jains, people who are Jewish. We consider them significant minorities. Add all those groups together to the, I think it's in between maybe one or two million people have had negative religious experiences.

Then the amount of people existing in the world now who have had negative religious experiences outweighs the total number of people who are Zoroastrian, Jains, people who are Jewish. We consider them significant minorities. Add all those groups together to the, I think it's in between maybe one or two million people have had negative religious experiences.

and lay out all the boring maths in a bucket hat out of the shirt and say like, look, my point there was, if you're a Christian, then you've sort of got to accept the fact that there are these evil spirits as well as good ones if you want to accept religious experiences. You can't keep pretending there aren't negative spirits in the world if you're a Christian.

and lay out all the boring maths in a bucket hat out of the shirt and say like, look, my point there was, if you're a Christian, then you've sort of got to accept the fact that there are these evil spirits as well as good ones if you want to accept religious experiences. You can't keep pretending there aren't negative spirits in the world if you're a Christian.